There is nothing quite like stepping outside in the fall, taking a deep breath of fresh air ... and catching a snoutful of skunk scent. No doubt, the pungent aroma can be found in practically any ...

You may not be asking for more credit—but your bank’s systems could be giving it to you anyway. New research from King’s Business School and the Federal Reserve Board suggests that a largely unseen ...

Americans will be leaning hard on their credit cards this holiday season. Whether that ends for you with a pile of new high-interest debt or a pile of presents that didn’t ruin your financial health ...

Cash-strapped Americans are dreaming of a green Christmas as money woes dampen what’s supposed to be the happiest time of the year. A new study has laid bare the dire state of the economy, with a ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Your favorite latte at the local coffee shop could soon cost $5, $5.10 or $5.25—depending on how you pay. A settlement between Visa, Mastercard and U.S. merchants announced this week could usher in a ...

The real price of a premium credit card isn’t the three-digit annual fee. For some, it’s the hours spent in spreadsheets trying to get their money’s worth. Eric and Charlene May have an arsenal of 14 ...

1 Department of Information Technology and Computer Science, School of Computing and Mathematics, The Cooperative University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. 2 Department of Computing and Informatics, School ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (Reuters) - The chair of the House Select Committee on China said Thursday that a licensing agreement for use of the TikTok algorithm, as part of a deal by China-based ByteDance to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...