About 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention. The problem wasn’t caused by smartphones ...

When I planted my summer garden in May, I was most excited about the sunflowers. I had finally solved the problem of our ground squirrels. My bedroom window looks out over the garden, and now the ...

A new poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Massachusetts residents believe police misconduct highlighted in the Karen Read case is evidence of a more systemic issue with law enforcement in the Bay ...

Growing recognition of the value embedded within end-of-life modules is shifting attention towards commercially viable circular business models. Image: Solar Materials. Shreeyashi Ojha reports on a ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Shocking text messages released Thursday, penned by a fired State Police investigator and former Canton police officer, will be a “major, significant problem for the whole commonwealth” if they shake ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

I am a very loyal and proud citizen of Reading going on 13 years now. When Eddie Moran replaced Wally Scott as mayor, I saw a beacon of hope. Sadly, it seems as if the city has gotten worse over the ...

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What is the purpose of education? For several decades, dating at least back to 1994 and former President Bill Clinton’s School-to-Work Opportunities Act, Democrats and Republicans agreed — the purpose ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...