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 ...

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, ...

New research was motivated by "high-potential societal impacts" of successfully disabling autonomous drones, a study author told Military.com.

After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had ...

As of March 2026, over half of US states have passed an “Age Verification” and “Digital ID” law. These verification systems (sometimes called “age-gating”) add a new dimension to problems that trans ...

A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

Summary: Workplace attrition threatens operational continuity and clinical trial timelines for life science professionals. The recent shift to remote and decentralized trials presents unique ...

Inside Beijing's conference rooms, the final draft of China's 15th Five-Year Plan is being scrutinized. A centerpiece of the top-level roadmap sets out a profound internal gear shift to transform the ...

Nevada’s employment agency is rolling out a Google-run artificial intelligence tool to process appeals on unemployment benefit decisions, a development the agency said would rapidly speed up the ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine. Normally, creating better ...

People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs and produce appropriate responses. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...