Claims of leaps in quantum computing are made almost daily, but progress is hard to judge when each research group uses its own mixture of hardware, algorithms and evaluation metrics, making it near ...

Alan Turings work laid the foundation for modern artificial intelligence, particularly through his concept of the Turing Test, which evaluates a machines ability to exhibit human-like behaviour.

It is, perhaps, the best way for a brilliant scientist to depart. The life’s work of nuclear physicist Xu Hongjie was coming to fruition as his country announced a breakthrough in civilian shipping – ...

Kenneth Evans receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Institute of Physics, and the Clinton Foundation. He is affiliated with Rice University's Baker Institute for Public ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is once again at the center of a heated debate as it reconsiders its Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) Rule under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act ...

This message itself was nothing special; it was meant to be the word "login," but the system crashed before it could be completed. However, the transmission was revolutionary, because it formed the ...

The Food and Drug Administration continued its work on reforming the US food system this week, announcing three important dates on ultra-processed foods, petroleum-based food dyes and food allergens.

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) 2 spacecraft is one of many science missions at NASA targeted for termination in the 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — Comments by NASA’s ...