He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities. By Adam Nossiter Renfrew Christie, a ...

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...

Arne Duncan was education secretary from 2009 to 2015. Jorge Elorza, former mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, is CEO of Education Reform Now. The latest Nation’s Report Card should be a national wake ...

In forecasting economic time series, statistical models often need to be complemented with a process to impose various constraints in a smooth manner. Systematically imposing constraints and retaining ...

Getting input from users is one of the first skills every Python programmer learns. Whether you’re building a console app, validating numeric data, or collecting values in a GUI, Python’s input() ...

We report the detection of five Jovian-mass planets orbiting high-metallicity stars. Four of these stars were first observed as part of the N2K program, and exhibited low rms velocity scatter after ...

Screaming Eagle by the glass, a vertical tasting of Hundred Acre paired with a five-course dinner and a $50,000 bottle of Dassai Beyond the Beyond are just a few exclusive wine and sake experiences ...

Each year, the code-sharing platform GitHub releases its ‘State of the Octoverse’ report, which among other things ranks the popularity of programming languages. The latest report, released in October ...

The False Claims Act (FCA) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) are two of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) primary tools when it comes to fighting fraud. Originally enacted during the Civil War to ...

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen covers global health. Starting Wednesday ...

Grok the faster interpreter in Python 3.14, learn what’s new in Python packages and PyPI, explore the new Python-to-C features in Cython 3.1, and seize the power of Python’s abstract base classes. In ...