Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Does quantum mechanics really reflect nature in its truest form, or is it just our imprecise way of describing the weird properties of the very small? A famous test that can help answer this question ...

Suppose you are working on a complex bash script to automate a series of tasks on your Linux system. You notice that as it grows, there are certain parts of the script where the same code blocks are ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, ...

This study tries to establish a heuristic basis for discussing the Riemann hypothesis. The backbone of this description lies in the use of graphical description and numerical non-linear least squares ...

Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. The Shift Three arguments for taking progress toward ...

What is the functions Command? In Fish shell, functions are blocks of reusable code that you can define and call by name. The functions command is a built-in utility that helps you manage these ...

Executive function skills is a term we hear a lot these days—almost like a buzzword. But what does it mean, and how does it relate to ADHD? Executive function skills are brain-based abilities that ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...