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, ...

Laid-off lawyers, history P h D s, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

An interdisciplinary research team from two working groups at the Centre for Synthetic Biology at TU Darmstadt has developed the first RNA-based genetic switch that precisely replicates the logical ...

Despite our nation's current penchant for combat engagements, the U.S. has become a second-tier military power, writes retired Navy vice admiral Joe Sestak.