When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

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A former Senior Publishing Editor on the Dow Jones Newswires team at The Wall Street Journal, Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism ...

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President Donald Trump used a late-night Thanksgiving post on Truth Social to outline what he called a "reverse migration" plan, pledging a permanent halt to immigration from what he described as ...

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...

Editor’s Note: This is one of Popular Mechanics’ greatest stories. It was initially published in December 2022. On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s ...

New research suggests that exercise may not just make us feel younger—it could actually slow or even reverse the body’s molecular clock. By looking at DNA markers of aging, scientists found that ...

A year before I sat down to write this article, I didn't know anything about reverse dieting. What I did know was my sporadic attempts to get in shape were too stressful. I'd do a month of committed ...