Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

Women’s Day is a moment to recognise women who have shaped different fields, including technology and artificial intelligence ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

Four NYU assistant professors each won $75,000 to complete a two-year research project after being named Sloan Research ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...

The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician ...

A team of scientists has developed an advanced computer algorithm that can predict the toxicity of new chemicals better than standard animal tests. This breakthrough has the potential to spare ...

AI, a dead student, and US airstrikes: How a civilian became caught up in a new age of warfare - IN FOCUS: As debate grows over the role of AI in military strikes in the bombing of Iran, scrutiny has ...