They’ve long been seen as an overseas oddity, roundly mocked on TV’s “The Simpsons” and in the Chevy Chase comedy “National Lampoon’s European Vacation.” But roundabouts are increasingly popping up in ...

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 ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of ...

The company will reveal its Gen 3 robot in the first quarter of 2026. The company will reveal its Gen 3 robot in the first quarter of 2026. is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has opened an investigation into Waymo after its robotaxis have been spotted illegally passing stopped school buses numerous times in at least two ...

Oregon lawmakers have spent more than a year trying and failing to secure more dollars to maintain the state’s roads and bridges. Yet, in public and private meetings this week in Salem, they have ...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

Two tons of Jim Crow-era trouble came crashing down on Charleston’s Marion Square last week. That’s when a massive granite marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — crafted in 1947 by the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

A recent Gallup poll asked about employees' use of AI at work. Nearly half said they use it at least a few times a year. There were some big differences between industries. The use of AI tools among ...

Discover a fast and powerful calculus-based method for finding square roots with impressive accuracy. This explanation shows how derivatives and iterative approximation can be used to quickly zero in ...