It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

Thousands of fireflies in the eastern US and Southeast Asia exhibit breathtaking synchronized flashing, a phenomenon now ...

In 2010, New York City, along with the rest of the U.S., was struggling with how to cope with the disruptive and economically ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

The old model -- work until you're 65, retire, golf, die -- is gone. With average life expectancy having increased by 30 years over the last century, people need to think differently about work.

Houston ISD is preparing what Superintendent Mike Miles calls “the next stage in changing the American public education ...

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside ...

Provided content. One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

Five Carnegie Mellon University faculty members are among the 126 recipients of 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships, which honor early career scholars whose achievements put them among the best scientific ...

One example involved a system built by a summer intern for his own project work. The tool geolocates devices within a drawing set and links them to a digital twin of the facility. Instead of searching ...

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events.