A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

In the old days, you either swore by BASIC or you swore at it — but just about everybody got their start on the educational ...

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says a STEM degree still matters in the AI era, and that people who know the fundamentals can use AI tools 10x better.

Imagine shining a flashlight across a dark room. You can predict exactly what the light will do: travel in a straight line from one point to another. That seems obvious because, in the world we see ...

One of the most essential inventions that people are using worldwide is the computer. It supports our learning, working, communication and information retention. There are computers in schools, banks, ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Canada’s National Research Council boldly advertises itself as “advancing mission-driven science and innovation” — to strengthen national security, economic resilience and global competitiveness. This ...

Dr. Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the ...

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 ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...