The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

ORANGE, New Jersey (WABC) -- Two sisters beloved by their family and community were killed after they ran back into a burning home to save their father, but never made it out. Flames broke out around ...

A New Jersey family’s Thanksgiving Day celebration turned tragic when two sisters died saving their disabled dad from a raging house fire, authorities said. Frantzia Fleury, 49, and Pojanee Fleury, 42 ...

When Marc-Andre Fleury suited up one last time in a Pittsburgh Penguins uniform during the preseason, there were many nods to the past in how he pranked his teammates, his on-ice demeanor in practice, ...

Renee Anderson is a digital producer at CBS New York, where she covers breaking news and other local stories. Before joining the team in 2016, Renee worked at WMUR-TV. Dave Carlin has covered major ...

Two sisters were killed saving their disabled father from a Thanksgiving Day fire in North Jersey, authorities said. Frantzia Fleury, 49, and Pojanee Fleury, 42, were helping their father escape their ...

The dichotomy between reality and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...