A cultural heritage scholar, Ayankola Ayanwuyi, has said Africa can unlock new pathways for education and technological innovation by decoding ancestral knowledge systems, citing the Ifa corpus as a ...

Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh have created the first functionally complete logic gate—a NAND gate (short for "NOT AND")—in a soft material using only beams of ...

Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab blazed a trail back in 2010 when it launched the iPhone 4 containing its own silicon. At the time, the handset maker was an outlier. But the $4.6 trillion Nvidia's ...

Stocks tumbled on Monday, extending a dayslong slide that presents a dilemma: Should investors buy in at bargain prices or unload in fear of worse to come? The tech-heavy Nasdaq plummeted 3% last week ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

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 ...

Truly breakthrough ideas rarely hatch overnight. Consider, for example, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which had a protracted evolution of its own. Darwin spent decades reading scientific ...