You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer. An international team ...

BALTIMORE — Claire Pollock kept quiet for years about the sexual trauma that she says forced her to abandon a promising career in classical music. “I couldn’t handle playing anymore,” says the former ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The chances of further interest rate cuts from the European Central Bank are declining given the economy's resilience and inflation holding around the 2% target, Belgian ...

The European Central Bank has done almost everything right in responding to a once-in-a-lifetime inflation shock, according to Governing Council member Pierre Wunsch. Wunsch, who also heads Belgium’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Just months after he was found mentally competent to stand trial, Eyewitness News learned former Brevard County Clerk of Court Mitch Needelman has died. He was charged with ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...

BERLIN, July 3 (Reuters) - The risk of inflation is pointing downwards rather than upwards, Belgium's central bank governor, Pierre Wunsch, told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper in an interview ...