When solutions are everywhere, our standards shift. Are we solving real problems—or just creating new ones to fix?

Using an advanced Monte Carlo method, Caltech researchers found a way to tame the infinite complexity of Feynman diagrams and ...

Pregnancy is a problem in academe because motherhood is a problem. As Mary Ann Mason put it, academics, particularly mothers, are subject to “ the baby penalty ”— and we know it.

Various problems that one might encounter with these aspects are identified, and suggestions of how to overcome these problems are proposed. Some of the examples presented show how mistaken and even ...

Max Verstappen complained about it regularly last season in 2024. On the simulator or in the wind tunnel, Red Bull seemed to have found the correct solutions to the car's balance problems, but once ...

Before getting into the details of the supposed housing crisis, here are a few angles in this debate that are too often ignored. Prices have gone up, but there's more.

Microsoft released tools to address security issues with Copilot, which indexes internal data and sometimes shares sensitive customer information.

There’s just one issue: Harris’ proposal could create more problems than the one it’s trying to solve, some economists say. Gavin Roberts studied anti-price gouging laws some states passed ...

When a search engine is ridiculously wrong, we can deal with it. But AI’s subtler mistakes and general sloppiness are a more serious long-term problem.

Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power ...