Here’s some quick stats from the National Weather Service: a five-day forecast is accurate 90% of the time, a seven-day forecast is accurate 80% of the time, but at 10 days… that number drops to about ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Green Bay Packers rookie wide receiver Matthew Golden is officially making a change in his jersey number before the start of the 2025 regular season. On Saturday, the Packers announced that Golden ...

We like to think that we're pretty good at math, especially after years of schooling. But every once in a while, a simple third-grade math problem manages to trip us up and make us question our ...

Is your Microsoft Word document refusing to print correctly? Are you seeing missing text, blank pages, or a distorted mess in Print Preview? This frustrating problem can derail your productivity and ...

TODAY’S WORD — PALIMONY (PALIMONY: PAL-ih-moh-nee: A court-ordered allowance paid by one member of a formerly unmarried, but cohabiting, couple to another.) Average mark 32 words Time limit 50 minutes ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, public reviews, and a provisional response from the authors. This manuscript ...

Next to Windows, Word might just be Microsoft’s most iconic software throughout PC history. Who hasn’t used Word at least once in their life? And how many of us have to use it every week — maybe even ...