Last week, we covered an assembly program that managed to generate both visuals and music within only 16 bytes of code, and this week we’ve got something even more arcane: the results of the 29th ...

“Toy Story 5” star Tim Allen says a “Home Improvement” reboot is not likely at the moment due to “personality problems” with the actors who played his on-screen sons on the classic ABC sitcom. “They ...

Six local high school seniors won a total of $10,000 in scholarship money, the United Way of Northeastern Minnesota (UWNEMN) announced today. To become a finalist in the United Way of Northeastern ...

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 ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 2, 2026) “Show me what democracy looks like; this is what democracy looks like” is a common chant at rallies across the United States and worldwide when people come out to ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

On the evening of May 25, Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric vehicle. Designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s studio LoveFrom, the EV offers more than 1,000 horsepower and a zero-to-60 ...

Mr. Paxton, a Texas Senate candidate, has led Senator John Cornyn in all but one independent poll in the Republican primary runoff. By Caroline Soler Ken Paxton, who is challenging Senator John Cornyn ...

Southwest replaced open seating with assigned seats and new fare categories in January 2026. The open-seating system was crucial for Southwest’s operational efficiency and quick turnarounds. Assigned ...