Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce bipartisan GUARD Act to protect minors from AI chatbots through mandatory ...

The mystery of the Moai stone heads has eluded onlookers for centuries — and now, researchers say they finally know how they got there. The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's ...

A new legislative package signed into law by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday hopes to boost homeownership in the state through tax incentives and better protection for renters. "Every New ...

Something to look forward to: For most of the past 51 years, a "simple" puzzle box has been enough to make the Rubik's Cube an enduringly popular and notoriously difficult toy for both kids and adults ...

The Rubik’s Cube has been reinvented with more games and many more screens for much more money. What has long been cherished as a simple toy yet complex puzzle requiring nothing but a healthy amount ...

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The Delian problem, an ancient Greek mathematical riddle, challenged scholars to double the volume of a cube using only a compass and straightedge—an elegant puzzle that proved to be impossible.

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 ...

This project includes two Rubik's Cube solvers, an optimal solver, and a Two-Phase / Kociemba's algorithm solver. The optimal solver takes an average of around 60 seconds to find a minimal length ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Toys have the unique power to turn curiosity into skill, and play into lifelong memories. They ...

With AI chatbots growing in popular usage, it was only a matter of time before large numbers of people began applying them to the stock market. In fact, at least 1 in 10 retail investors now consult ...

The consortium running the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission has published the most extensive simulation of the cosmos to date. The modeling was based on algorithms developed by UZH ...