In 2024, a quirky, sharp-toothed plush toy named Labubu, produced by Chinese company Pop Mart, became a global sensation. Its popularity surged after celebrities like BLACKPINK’s Lisa, Rihanna and Dua ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: For low-frequency source localization with a small-aperture acoustic array, we propose a high-resolution localization algorithm based on complex Wishart prior. The algorithm, named ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Background: Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) and ventricular tachycardia (VT) commonly arise from the outflow tracts of the left and right ventricles and can be treated with catheter ablation ...

Separate accounts, separate campaigns, or one shared setup? It’s often the first question marketers face when launching Google Ads in multiple countries or languages. The structure you choose lays the ...