The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

Our fossil fuel-powered civilization is stoking wildfires. And we’re paying interest on a growing debt to nature in the process.

The GOP campaign against California’s proposed gerrymander is preparing to go after some of the state’s most prominent Democrats over their past resistance to independent line drawing.

I’m generally disinclined to use the term “late-capitalism” because it assumes we are near enough the end that we can look back and chart capitalism’s full development.  “Post-capitalism” is even ...

Enrollment at Indiana University's Bloomington campus has risen by thousands of students in the last decade, but the university has failed to add any significant amount of on-campus housing during ...

A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, September 28, 2025 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor ...

When Hurricane Helene hit in September 2024, Environmental Studies Professor Brad Johnson tossed his syllabus so he and his students could study the impact of the historic storm. A year later, Johnson ...

Preliminary reports for the pair of Utah tornadoes currently rank them as level EF2, the same as the tornado that tore through Salt Lake City in 1999.

Andrew Childs is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He serves as interim director ...

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