A major outage at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare knocked parts of the internet offline, disrupting access to X, NJ Transit, ChatGPT and other major platforms ...

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Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester Patients’ lives are being put at risk by poor communication from healthcare professionals ...

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Refractive errors are common eye issues that can cause blurry or distorted vision. Treatment usually involves wearing glasses or contact lenses or getting procedures ...

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The New York Yankees were cruising toward a Game 5 victory Wednesday night, looking to send the World Series back west on a two-game winning streak. They were up five runs and had seemingly taken the ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has improved its results by repeatedly fixing its own mistakes midcalculation with a technique called quantum error correction ...