Quantum advantage refers to the point at which a quantum computer solves a clearly defined task faster or more efficiently than any classical computer—or makes it solvable in the first place. For many ...

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science ...

In his 1927 paper, "A law of comparative judgment," the American psychologist L. L. Thurstone proposed that when people ...

At a convening for the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program, I saw how academic researchers are facing up to the challenges of the AI era.

Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, an Indian schoolteacher, discovered the intriguing number 6174. This constant emerges from a simple four-digit number rearrangement process. Repeatedly applying this ...

Anthropic, the firm behind the artificial-intelligence model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly embedded with a watermark that ...

Sam Altman says the singularity is here and will be ‘hugely positive, awesome for the world.’ So what is the singularity, and ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a design and fabrication system that produces 3D printed interactive objects capable of ...

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privacy frontier might be the things you only think.

Manhattan Project scientists tried to warn the world about the weapon they built. Today's AI engineers are raising similar ...

Climate research requires environmental science, but climate action also involves economics, technology, public policy, design and collective decision-making. The questions are connected even when the ...