When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement, and its inverse, have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science.
It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do so for some critical optimization tasks.
The intrepid probe entered into safe mode, likely as it flew through Jupiter's radiation belts.
“Pretty soon, within the next couple of weeks, everything regarding IT and cyber at the department will start to operationally reach a point of no return,” one source said.
In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, …read more
Poland is set to power up its first full-stack quantum computer this year, following a deal with Helsinki-based startup IQM. IQM, Europe’s best-funded quantum hardware company, will install the machine at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST…
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CNET takes a look at this budget-friendly, pocket-sized computer.
Kira Learning unveiled a new set of AI agents that will help teachers personalize their approach.
A sealed Herculaneum scroll yields its secrets—revealing a lost philosophical treatise by Philodemus through virtual unwrapping.
Yale grads Sneha Sivakumar and Anushka Nijhawan raise $4.5M for Spur, an AI agent startup for website QA with funding from First Round and Pear.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: Facebook's loosening of its content moderation standards early this year got lots of attention and criticism. But a new study suggests that it might matter less what is taken down than when. Th…
BI wants to hear from Gen Zers ages 18 to 28 who are tech workers, students, or interns or and those aspiring to work in the tech industry.
Anima Anandkumar says students should "go after hard problems," warns bad coders will be replaced, and says scientists aren't going anywhere.
The LinkedIn cofounder said 'a bunch of folks' were developing agentic AI, 'not just' big players like Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, And Microsoft.
First Moon samples collected in nearly 50 years and loaned by China for the first time are now in the UK.
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
Magnus Grimeland, the CEO and founder of the VC firm Antler, said demand for software engineers will only grow with AI.
Alvin Lucier was an American experimental composer whose compositions were arguably as much science experiments as they were music. The piece he is best known for, I Am Sitting in a Room, explored …
You might think that Apple, Commodore or perhaps Radio Shack made the first personal computer, but you’d be wrong.
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Project Kuiper is planning to launch Monday evening after its first rocket launch, earlier this month, was scrapped due to the weather.
Revelations about Meta's secret tests highlight how valuable training data is for AI model development, and suggest a way for creators to get paid.
Computer science education has seen two important trends. One has been a shift from raw theory towards skills: competency-based teaching. Another has been increasing student numbers, with as a result more automation in teaching. When automating education, it …
Major advancements in tech and science are brewing as the industry makes its way through the 'International Year of Quantum.'
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince told BI that understanding the basics is still important and humans need to review code even if AI is writing it.
No-code AI startup StackAI raises $16 million Series A from Lobby VC, offering enterprises tools to create AI agents for business operations.
New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
Quantum computing startups are learning from the mistakes of the AI boom and funding training programs to develop the talent the industry needs.
Trump's funding cuts at universities are jeopardizing his "America First" mission. The US, a leader in Nobel prizes, could start to slip.
As children get older, their understanding of science and being a scientist changes. The words adults use are a critical part of keeping them engaged in discovery
Don't let AI erode your focus.
Have you ever heard of the expression "peaked in high school?" This is usually said about the kids who were "popular" in high school, treated everyone else poorly, but are now adults and are not doing too well—thus, the best time of their life was in high sch…
Physicists are trying to ditch the concept of space-time – the supposed fabric of physical reality. Quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
Let's take a look at this budget-friendly, pocket-sized computer.
You may not know it, but if you have an internet-connected device, you have the CVE program to thank for device security. We all almost lost it.
Maker Faire Miami and its producers at Moonlighter FabLab have always celebrated innovation in full color as befits the city they live in. For Maker Faire Miami 2025 things are getting a little bit wilder as they move into their new venue at Fairchild Tropica…
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Hear takeaways from 35 years at Scientific American from Gary Stix, our recently retired mind and brain editor.
Carnegie Mellon staffed a fake company with AI agents. It was a total disaster.
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Chungin Lee used ChatGPT to help write the essay that got him into Columbia University — and then "proceeded to use generative artificial intelligence to cheat on nearly every assignment," reports New York magazine's blog Intelligencer: As a computer-science…
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Melissa Goldman returned to Wall Street after stints at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Google. She discusses the evolving role of engineers in finance.
A Gen Zer said by changing a few numbers at the end of a URL, he could find internship and job postings from the last hour.
Humans need to embrace domains where AI still falters, and where human creativity, ethics and emotion emain indispensable.
Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect?
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Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO and interim CEO, has founded AI startup Thinking Machines. Learn more about her family, background, and career.
Why we might need something like tenure for many more people, to cultivate more thinkers in a doer's world
Over the last century, the landscapes in which we move seem to intertwine, branch and gesticulate. Throughout this period, it has been confirmed that the universe, at all scales, is quantum. Reality is described in terms of probabilistic principles, and our w…
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The popular fantasy card game Magic: The Gathering has a new card related to prime numbers. Now fans are trying to use it to tackle one of the biggest problems in mathematics
We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.
A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in quantum computing, quantum communication and other quantum-…
Gen Zers fear AI will torpedo their careers. As tech companies pull back on entry-level jobs, it's starting to look as if they're right.
A cell phone, a computer—and your curiosity—is all you need to become a NASA citizen scientist and contribute to projects about Earth, the solar system, and beyond. Science is built from small grains of sand, and you can contribute yours from any corner of th…
I've studied the effects of electromagnetic fields on patients with carotid stent implants during my PhD. I've never talked with any patient nor seen any such medical devices even to this day, fiftee…
Jigyasa Grover shares what worked and what she'd change about the résumés that landed her roles at Meta and X.
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Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing.
The company said it's testing AI improvements on opt-in devices without collecting user content.
After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain,
You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into all their products. Results have been mixed to say the least…
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A new AI model produced by computer scientists in collaboration with dolphin researchers could open the door to two-way animal communication.
DZ's tech lead is a doctor of computer science, and that doctor loves to write code. But you already know that "PhD" stands for "Piled high and deep", and that's true of the tech lead's clue. For example, in C#: private List ExtractListForId(string id) { Li…
A team of researchers has successfully predicted abnormal grain growth in simulated polycrystalline materials for the first time -- a development that could lead to the creation of stronger, more reliable materials for high-stress environments, such as combus…
RAGEN stands out not just as a technical contribution but as a conceptual step toward more autonomous, reasoning-capable AI agents.
d1 framework changes boosts diffusion LLMs with novel reinforcement learning, unlocking efficient, problem-solving AI possibilities.
In the 1930s, prejudice and anti-science ideology destroyed the world’s leading math department, at Göttingen. It couldn't happen here, could it?
If you’ve ever wanted to be a doctor or know someone who works in healthcare, you probably know how bizarre and even scary the medical field and the human body can be. The world’s medical history is full of eerie events, powerful breakthroughs, and moments th…
Feedback notes the flurry of new papers mentioning the mysterious "vegetative electron microscope", and ponders the emergence of this tortured phrase
The Master's Programme on Sustainable Cities blends hands-on experience with academic insights from the Norman Foster Foundation's global network of experts. Co-directed by Norman Foster, President of the Foundation, and Professor Kent Larson, Director of the…
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The list included 10 public and 10 private universities, including one in Massachusetts, that Forbes calls "the new Ivies."
Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? A new study shows that citizen science data from iNaturalist and eBird can reliably capture known seasonal patt…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been a trailblazer in brain chip implant technology. But today, rival company Precision Neuroscience announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.Read more...
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A federal judge blasted the Trump administration's termination of immigration records for thousands of foreign students in the U.S. as "arbitrary and capricious."
Cryptographers' panel a bit gloomy this year RSAC It was a somewhat gloomy Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, with two of the industry's sages in a pretty grim mood.…
In the first season of Severance, series director and executive producer Ben Stiller made an uncredited cameo that most fans didn't immediately notice.
In an open letter, America’s top CEOs say they want AI taught in every school. "We must prepare our children for the future — to be AI creators, not just consumers."
Project Kuiper wants to challenge SpaceX's Starlink, but Elon Musk's company is far ahead for now.
Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence
A second-hand Zelda cartridge. A cryptic forum thread. A generation of terrified children. This is the story of Ben Drowned – the internet's most infamous video game ghost.
The recruitment videos come as Beijing has recently ramped up anti-espionage efforts.
The first planned launch was scrapped due to the weather, but Project Kuiper has a new date.
On Episode 159 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by David Bell to talk about the current and future potential for AI to revolutionize space exploration.
The campaign emphasizes new research showing that taking just one high school computer science course can boost early career earnings by eight percent, regardless of a graduate's eventual profession. It also references a World Economic Forum report that ident…
Say what you like about Zaha Hadid Architects' evolution in style since its founder passed, but you can't accuse the studio of being boring. Case in point is the Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum which is defined by an extraordinary futuristic form intende…