This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

HUMANS HAVE never been immune from the pressures of natural selection. Throughout the history of the species circumstances have arisen to give individuals with certain beneficial mutations an ...

College basketball's long-awaited postseason is here with Selection Sunday and the reveal of the 2026 NCAA Tournament's 68-team bracket. CBS will exclusively air the decision from the NCAA Division I ...

Selection Sunday brings March Madness. And additional alliteration, maybe. Andy Lyons / Getty Images Let the brackets begin. By Sunday night, all 31 men’s basketball conference tournaments will be ...

The 2026 men's NCAA Tournament officially starts when the 68-team bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday a week from now. By the time the bracket is finally unveiled, 31 teams with automatic bids won ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

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As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

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 ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...