They swear they haven’t peeked at the closely guarded secret and that they’ll keep the cryptographic competition going.

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has solved an 80-year-old math problem in a feat hailed as a major milestone for AI's mathematical ability. The planar unit distance problem, first posed by ...

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An audit of 2.5 million academic papers has identified nearly 3,000 biomedical-science papers that contain fake references — ones that could not be traced to known publications. The findings, ...

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On a Thursday afternoon in mid-April, nearly 400 physicists and physics students pack into a lecture hall in the Harvard Science Center to learn about their replacement. Harvard Professor of Physics ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

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Science has always relied on a curious human’s mind forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, analyzing the results and presenting the case to that person’s peers. Over centuries, we’ve built ...

In context: Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even ...

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It's located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...