Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

Researchers solved the mystery of how soft lithium dendrites crack the hard ceramic inside solid-state batteries, triggering short circuits. The breakthrough could help engineers build safer, ...

A restaurant owner combined his passion for technology and food to address invoicing issues. Today, more than 12,000 restaurants utilize his software to track inventory and profits more accurately.

Some of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence are being worked on not by computer scientists head down in code but by philosophers lured from academia into jobs at AI firms. The ...

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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure. The new technology hinges on a “quasi-random ...

What do you do when a modern, German-built V8 goes kaput? Find a 50-year-old Ford engine and a three-speed automatic. Many shadetree mechanics have been flustered—flabbergasted, even—by German ...

Study after study has revealed that artificial intelligence is adversely affecting students’ ability to think critically, solve problems, and formulate their own ideas without the assistance of ...

Perhaps you’ve inherited a mature Douglas fir canopy. Or, maybe your garden was sunnier a few years ago, but as nearby trees filled in, the light equation shifted. Many gardeners complain about ...

This is our home. If we destroy it, and we can’t build it up, then that’s a part of the Earth that’s destroyed, and we won’t be able to get it back. Matthew, aged ten, isn’t alone in feeling this way.