Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds planets in orbit. The pursuit was more or ...

Astronomers are rethinking one of cosmology’s biggest mysteries: dark energy. New findings show that evolving dark energy models, tied to ultra-light axion particles, may better fit the universe’s ...

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Hundreds of Georgia families are set to face a two-month countdown to losing federal housing aid as the Emergency Housing Voucher program ends June 30. The program launched in ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding structure that helps control how genes turn on and off. Researchers at the ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Scientists from Brazil are challenging the traditional view of universal constants, proposing that only one constant—time itself—is needed to measure relativistic spacetime. The research team argued ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

You may underestimate how frequently you look at your device, and you may be paying a price with more attention and memory lapses. For many of us, checking our phones has probably become an ...

A median of 28% of adults across 24 countries say they are online almost constantly. An additional 40% say they use the internet several times a day, while 9% do not use it at all, according to a Pew ...