Carrie Underwood knows what it feels like to be overwhelmed — and on the latest episode of American Idol, one contestant’s story hit home in a big way. The country superstar was moved to tears during ...

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Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Broken String Biosciences (“Broken String”), a leader in advancing gene editing safety, today announced the appointment of new leadership to drive the ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s summer shows have taken audiences to the clouds, down a wishing well and into outer space. For its sixth annual al fresco production, the Olympia troupe is visiting ...

Over the weekend, The String Cheese Incident set off the next leg of their Summer Tour with two nights at Vail, Colo.’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre. For the Crested Butte, Colo.-bred jamgrass pioneers ...

During the 20th century, physicists introduced and refined string theory, a theoretical framework that promised to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity. Instead of point-like particles, ...