We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

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In January 2020, just eight months into her tenure as CEO of Best Buy, Corie Barry learned about a novel coronavirus spreading in China. By early March, Barry was getting reports that the virus was ...

If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Problem-solving therapy (PST) helps individuals manage stress by breaking down challenges into practical, manageable steps. The aim of the therapy is to help people cope more confidently with ...

The famously chaotic three-body problem, which describes how three masses gravitationally interact, has puzzled physicists for centuries. Now, new research suggests it's not quite as chaotic as ...

“The Problem With People” starts with a montage of the many wars and conflicts happening in the world right now. A dying Irish man, Fergus (Des Keough) bemoans this crushing violence affecting ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...