Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, “Jack,” a 36-year-old man, and I, a 29-year-old woman, have been dating ...

Senate Republicans are gearing up for a floor fight this week over doomed Trump-backed voter ID legislation. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is expected to launch the GOP’s floor strategy ...

I was curious about how Jesus allotted his time on earth—and what Christians could learn from it. What is God’s heart? What does he value? What relative importance does he place on the different ...

As longtime college math faculty in San Diego County, we were taken aback by the news about first-year students struggling with middle school math at UC San Diego. The idea that students might score ...

How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’ve been in a long-distance, open relationship with “Tom” for nearly a ...

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking about AI agents, and kicking the can for that transformational moment to 2026 ...

The SeattleStatGROWS program (Statistical Growing Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in Washington State) is a Fred Hutch Cancer Center initiative aimed at educating and mentoring undergraduate ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

Sometimes the universe seems to have a big hand in orchestrating moments in life. That’s how it felt for three random North Texas musicians in 2014 who banded together as the “Three Random Guys” after ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...