Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

Americans might not be as divided as they often believe, according to a wide-ranging group of scholars and thought leaders who crunched thousands of data points for a new “State of the States” report.

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...

With $7.748 billion reported lost by Americans 60 and older in 2025, HCSK's Stolen Trust reads federal data and 1,910 news items together to show the scale, mechanics, and human cost of the crisis.

You have to hand it to the state of Florida. It’s a clever idea, this “calculator” they came up with, to see how much money you, a Florida homeowner, could save if the governor’s proposal to expand ...