In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...

Research led by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University finds that regional fat distribution exerts distinct effects on brain structure, connectivity and cognition, revealing patterns not explained by ...

Many presidents and vice presidents fall out by the end of their tenures, a fraught dynamic that goes back to the early days of the republic. Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book recounts ...

This project aims to explore and benchmark the performance of quantum kernel methods applied to small, classical datasets for binary classification tasks. Quantum kernel methods leverage the ...

When former Vice President Kamala Harris first heard about how poorly Joe Biden’s team was responding to excerpts of her upcoming book, she essentially shrugged, I’m told. She wasn’t surprised. The ...

Abstract: Thyroid carcinoma ranks among the most common malignancies affecting the endocrine system, and early diagnosis through histopathological image analysis is crucial for improving patient ...

“Fresh Air” host Terry Gross is one of the great public readers of my lifetime. I’m not talking about her reading voice (though she obviously has a great reading voice), but how she reads, and then ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

For the most part, voting patterns across demographic groups in the 2024 presidential election were not substantially different from the 2020 and 2016 elections. But Donald Trump’s gains among several ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand which voters cast ballots in the 2024 presidential election and how they voted. We also wanted to compare how turnout and vote choices ...