No matter your age, it’s never too late to learn something new—especially in a world that’s constantly changing. With Coursera, you don’t have to sit in a classroom to pick up new skills. Coursera ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

A massive pipe burst out of the road in Osaka, Japan, bringing traffic to a screeching halt. The pipe is 11.5 feet in diameter and rose up to 42 feet above the ground at one point. No one was injured ...

Robert Wise's 1971 sci-fi thriller raises pertinent questions about human fragility.

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has delivered results that exceeded every benchmark the agency set for its first attempt to change an asteroid’s trajectory. On September 26, ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning.

Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

The team's automated reasoning research aims to build algorithms that allow computers to perform logical reasoning. The output of these algorithms is traditionally binary: satisfiable or unsatisfiable ...

A biocomputer powered by lab-grown human brain cells has leveled up from Pong to Doom. While nowhere ready to handle the video game shooter’s most challenging levels, researchers at Cortical Labs in ...

The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...