Jumble is a daily word puzzle released and operated by the Chicago Tribune newspaper. Refreshing daily, each puzzle gives players four words (six on a Sunday) to unscramble. There’s then a cartoon ...

Word guessing games have become a fun daily activity that has become the modern-day equivalent of crosswords. If you’ve got a lineup of daily word guessers you play, Contexto should definitely be on ...

I very much enjoyed Miriam Frankel’s article “Do we live in a simulation?”. But she inadvertently hints at an interesting theory and then ignores it. Just assume, as others have, that this is a ...

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Superconducting-qubit quantum annealers have served as platforms for simulating condensed-matter phenomena. Sathe et al. use a quantum annealer to probe critical phenomena in classical magnets by ...

If you had a reputation for being a know-it-all as a kid, you’re likely now the person with a trusted list of trivia questions and answers on file. Not only that, but you probably love sentences that ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...