Rebecca McMahon, 23, became the first woman to pass the physical test to qualify for a job as a Spokane firefighter.

“The Combat Field Test is a critical step forward in ensuring our Soldiers serving in the most physically demanding specialties have the specific fitness required to dominate on the modern battlefield ...

Airbus conducted the first flight and live-fire tests of the Bird of Prey unmanned fighter, equipped with Mark I miniature anti-aircraft missiles adapted for air launch. This was reported by Airbus ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

America’s first responders put their lives on the line to protect their communities — and it shaves approximately 10 years off their life expectancy. Despite the inevitable risk, practicing healthy ...

A math teacher at Lowell High School in San Francisco is under investigation after administrators received complaints about inappropriate questions on his tests. The questions reportedly featured ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

An off-duty Pembroke firefighter was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after crashing into a utility pole. Police reports say his blood alcohol content was over three times the ...

The verdict, it seems, is in: artificial intelligence is not about to replace mathematicians. That is the immediate takeaway from the “First Proof” challenge—perhaps the most robust test yet of the ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...