The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls ...

If sleeping is a struggle, there's a good chance the solution you've employed is to keep the TV or a podcast on in the background. But it turns out those solutions might have a deeper psychological ...