In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

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Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

Black Friday is traditionally one of the best times to buy a new TV, and this year is no different. If you’re hoping to make a living room upgrade, we’ve scoured the web and picked out the best Black ...

Vice President JD Vance told U.S. Army soldiers that he did not believe them when they claimed to enjoy eating turkey. Vance delivered Thanksgiving remarks in Kentucky at Fort Campbell, the home of ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

As TriMet prepares to implement service cuts on Nov. 30, one rider has already proved that longer wait times won’t stop a determined transit superfan. Marty Valentine, pictured on TriMet MAX Blue Line ...

Roku Channel offers free live TV, on-demand shows, and movies. You can watch on almost any TV, computer, tablet, or phone. More than 500 live channels are available. The name Roku has become ...

The powerful House Oversight Committee released more than 20,000 pages of documents provided by the estate of Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday, providing the most detailed glimpse yet of the convicted ...

AI, loathe it or loathe it, but everyone is using it. And, because it’s developed by Google, Gemini is among the most popular of the AI research tools out there. I guess that’s why my mailbox has been ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

The beauty writer Jessica DeFino refers often to the “mirror world” inside our phone, the uncanny, glistening selfieverse that’s also become more real for many of its devotees than the lumpy, blotchy ...