Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president

With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what ...
Tech Xplore

Mechanical computers use springs and bolts to count, sort odd-even pushes and remember force

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

2026 NBA Draft order, lottery odds: Wizards, Pacers and Nets have best chances at No. 1 pick

The 2025-26 NBA regular season officially came to a close on Sunday night. It means the playoff bracket is set, and it also ...
The Star

Rising number of single women threatens Nepali nomadic tribe

FILE PHOTO: Raute children posing for the camera. In Raute culture, remarriage is strictly forbidden for women. Once widowed, a woman is expected to remain single for the rest of her life, regardless ...
London Evening Standard

Harry Styles bags UK number one single and album in second chart double

The singer’s last album, Harry’s House, and single As It Was also bagged him a chart double in 2022. Harry Styles has topped the UK charts and claimed a number one chart double for the second time ...
Penn Live

Mega Millions numbers: Are you the lucky winner of Tuesday’s $533 million jackpot? One ticket in Illinois won

Are you tonight’s lucky winner? Grab your tickets and check your numbers. Someone in Illinois won a jackpot worth $533 million in the Mega Million lottery. The jackpot resets again for Friday night’s ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Single ticket won Powerball $251 million jackpot last night. See where

A ticket sold in Arkansas won the $251 million Powerball jackpot on Monday, March 2. The winning numbers were 2, 17, 18, 38, 62, with a red Powerball of 20. One ticket in Puerto Rico won $2 million by ...
UPI

Ohio man wins lottery jackpot after using same numbers for 22 years

Feb. 16 (UPI) --An Ohio man who stuck with the same set of lottery numbers for 22 years found his persistence rewarded with a $3.5 million jackpot. The Akron man told Ohio Lottery officials he kept ...
New Scientist

The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

A special set of numbers has formed the backbone of nuclear physics research for decades, and now we finally know how it arises from the quantum mix of nuclear particles and forces. Nearly 80 years ...
Nature

Charge-neutral electrons are odd — except when they’re even

In superconducting materials, pairs of electrons form a shared quantum-mechanical state. Control of this macroscopic quantum state is a key feature that is required for superconducting quantum ...
Phys.org

Majorana qubits become readable as quantum capacitance detects even-odd states

The race to build reliable quantum computers is fraught with obstacles, and one of the most difficult to overcome is related to the promising but elusive Majorana qubits. Now, an international team ...
The New York Times

Ian Holloway and a managerial rant for the ages: ‘Sort your lives out every single stinking one of you’

Holloway was furious to be informed on Friday that his captain was suspended for Swindon's match the following day Richard Sellers/PA Images via Getty Images It started pretty much like every ...