The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

More than a decade before she wrote “Rattlebone,” her acclaimed 1994 collection of interlinked short stories, Maxine Clair felt anxious, desperate, almost physically ill. She was in her early 40s, ...

For nine glorious months last year, it looked as if Ed Sheeran's bubble had burst. His latest and weakest album, Autumn Variations, had left the top 100 after only eight weeks, whereas three of its ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. He was the future. That’s why he originally decided to go to the University of Minnesota. “I wanted to ...

The US action camera tech company GoPro soft launched an AI Training Licensing program that profit-shares with participants, but the details are troubling. If you're a US-based GoPro user, and ...

A Python visualizer is a tool that shows you how your code runs, step by step, using pictures and diagrams. It helps you see how your variables change, how functions call each other, and where errors ...