In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

The most recent TIMSS assessment underscores the seriousness of our problem. Canadian Grade 4 students performed below both U.S. students and the international median at nearly every math benchmark ...

President Donald Trump, in a brief phone call with POLITICO, cast himself as the savior for a United Nations in danger of financial collapse, touting his ability to get members to pay unpaid dues. But ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Working from home is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you retain full access to the creature comforts of home — access to one's own, private ...

How Gasoline Direct Injection causes Chain Wear, Fuel Dilution, and LSPI. One of the biggest changes to gasoline combustion engines in recent history is the mass adoption of direct injection ...

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands. By Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar ...

Foreword: I wish solving housing affordability fit into a 30-second TikTok or Instagram reel. It just doesn’t. But if we’re serious about fixing homeownership in America, we need to move past ...

H ave you ever met a Zionist Foucauldian? Some 30 years ago, I half-jokingly asked my fellow graduate students in a social-theory course if they had ever encountered such a creature. No one had. The ...

Kevin Atlanta was homeless until this summer. NY1 met him at a shelter in Queens — a facility run by the nonprofit group Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) similar to where he had stayed — a place that ...

Looking at challenges outside of your own company can lead to powerful change. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School, believes the world demands a new kind of business leader. She ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...