Hunger isn’t just due to moral failure. It is due to structural problems, which require design-based solutions.

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

Much of today’s economic debate is plagued by a basic category error. Policymakers, commentators and even central bankers talk endlessly about inflation, when what ...

A $6 million, taxpayer-funded clubhouse at a Westlake golf course is straining under the weight of potential structural issues that an engineer recently warned could lead to it falling or caving in ...

Modern software increasingly depends on data structures that go far beyond basic arrays and trees. Some of the most powerful systems rely on designs that rarely appear in traditional programming ...

Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats—solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding ...

In the vast theater of life on Earth, humans often take center stage as the planet’s premier problem-solvers. Our capacity for innovation and tool use has certainly changed the world, but we’re not ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Childhood had its own challenges, but looking back, some things that felt impossible then are laughably simple now. The twist is that we've also managed to complicate things that used to be effortless ...

The world is a pretty complicated place. Just think about all the moving parts it takes to get sliced bread delivered, regularly, to your local grocery store and then apply that to every facet of life ...