Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

An experiment to uncover the world’s funniest jokes has found that some computer-generated gags can be more amusing than those thought up by humans. The Laugh Lab survey is being conducted through a ...

It’s the week after Christmas, and we finally got (a little) holiday snow in Michigan. My family went sledding this afternoon, and my son got to try out his new snowboard. I’m home with the family now ...