Six-time USA Memory champion Nelson Dellis has memorized hundreds of digits of pi. He has tips for how to improve your memory.

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...

Each spring, amateur astronomers attempt the ultimate stargazing challenge—an overnight quest to spot every galaxy, nebula, and star cluster in Charles Messier’s famous catalog. Photographer Alan Dyer ...

It’s a good problem to have: too much money saved for retirement and additional funds to leave to your heirs. Will you be one of the many who never spend it all?

Introduced in the late 1970s, 401(k)s use pre-tax money to help you maximize your retirement savings. Today, nearly two-thirds of U.S. workers have access to a 401(k) or similar defined contribution ...

The University of Texas is a world-leading university system. There, students from across Texas earn an education that prepares them to think carefully about the most pressing issues facing our state ...

Deciding when to claim Social Security benefits is one of the most important financial choices Americans make in their early 60s. Claim too early, and your monthly checks are permanently smaller. Wait ...

In part, the problem has to do with how users are asking their questions. By Teddy Rosenbluth A new study published Monday provided a sobering look at whether A.I. chatbots, which have fast become a ...

The iPad today is truly incredible at mobile computing, thanks to its hardware blended with the simple iPadOS interface. However, just because it's a reliable device doesn't mean it's immune to ...

If you're 74 (or getting close), this is a natural moment to check up on your retirement readiness and see how your own situation compares to other Americans in the same age range. Net worth is simply ...

I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s description of gravity as the curvature of spacetime. After all, it’s consistently ...