One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter ...

The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

Along with — and probably because of — an increasingly world-weary world, comedy, and the way that we consume it, has matured. I’m loath to use the word seriously, but comedy has reached a level of ...