Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have lingered from decades to centuries. The thought-provoking findings offer new ways of ...

When police questioned Marvin Margolis following the murder of Elizabeth Short — who became known as the Black Dahlia — he lied about how well he had known her. The 22-year-old Short had been found ...

Thirty-six years after a young biologist was found raped and murdered near her Maryland home, a man has taken responsibility for the crime. James Clinton Cole took an Alford plea Wednesday, admitting ...

Some algorithms solve problems. This one changed civilization. From guiding satellites to securing your bank account, its influence reaches every corner of technology. It started with a simple insight ...

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...

DETRIM (DEtection of TRansient IMmobilization) is a robust, hierarchical DBSCAN-based algorithm designed to detect both long-lived and transient immobilization events in Single-Molecule Localization ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

President Trump and New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met in the White House and largely avoided criticizing each other, despite trading barbs for the last few months. Photo: Yuri ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Last month, two journalists decoded part of the famous Kryptos sculpture in front of the CIA building. It’s the latest news in the cryptography world, as ciphers continue to attract code crackers in ...