As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

Personal recommendations continue to drive book discovery more than algorithms, social media, and other digital tools, according to the 2026 State of Reading Report released today by Everand and Fable ...

With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly, exactly the way you want it.’ With its playlist chatbot, Spotify says you could ‘curate your next Discover Weekly ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

A new stop-motion animated film called “Wildwood" was created and based in Oregon and is set to premiere in 2026. The film was made at the Hillsboro-based production company Laika Studios. The studio ...

A new Star Trek movie is in the works. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are a filmmaking duo who worked on the scripts for movies like 2011’s Horrible Bosses, 2013’s The Incredible Burt ...

The Pentagon’s removal of nearly 600 books and lessons on race, gender and identity in accordance with a series of executive orders likely violated Defense Department school students’ First Amendment ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Paramount, fresh off its merger with Skydance, has recently announced that they've secured the film rights to Activision's Call of Duty and plans to produce a live-action film. However, according ot a ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

NEW YORK (August 12, 2025) — Communication in Healthcare: Charting the Course to Better Outcomes with Trust, Respect, and Teamwork by Dr. Anne Marie Morse is now available at major booksellers and on ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.