Your browser does not support the audio element. We use SSH, HTTPS, etc., on a daily basis. These programs depend on RSA asymmetric key encryption and decryption for ...

Even as the U.S. economy adds jobs, there are fewer entry-level positions for college graduates just entering the labor market. "For the first time in modern history, a bachelor's degree is no longer ...

Peter Waldman Artisan, glassblower, and balloon man. Peter Waldman is never without a balloon. Even out to dinner, he will pause and twist up a creation if there’s a child nearby. For the past 40 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received ...

For centuries prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help them identify primes and the way they are distributed among other ...

Two days before the beginning of Pride Month, President Donald Trump’s administration terminated a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine for HIV. On Friday, the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he had begun to shutter a Pentagon program meant to advance women’s participation in peace-building and conflict prevention, which was created by a ...

The Trump administration is halting a $1 billion program that helps preserve affordable housing, threatening projects that keep tens of thousands of units livable for low-income Americans, according ...

The job market is becoming more precarious for job seekers, as more than a third say they're applying to more jobs than ever but hearing back less, according to new research from LinkedIn. One in five ...

Numeracy or numerosity, the ability to think about and use numbers, varies among human cultures and within populations, much like intelligence does. Many known languages, for example, have no words ...

Getting help to find lost items will become much easier with the next iOS update. That’s because Apple is adding new options to the Find My app with iOS 18.2 that will let users share the location of ...