The Atom and the Algorithm: Nuclear Energy and AI are Converging to Shape the Future Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the ...

Understanding quantum computing, from qubits science and tech breakthroughs to future quantum applications, and discovering how close we are to real-world use cases ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Media personalities and online influencers who sow social division for a living, blame the rise of assassination culture on Antifa and MAGA. Meanwhile, tech CEOs gin up fears of an AI apocalypse. But ...

Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.

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An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human.

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was ...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off tremendously for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she and her team investigated cellular recycling centres ...

AI-powered recommendation algorithms on social media are carving pop culture into tiny, personalized bubbles, fueling echo ...

Thomas Lincoln and Sarah Bush Lincoln—Abraham’s father and stepmother—are buried at Shiloh Cemetery just south of town, offering a quiet reminder that even legendary presidents came from regular ...

When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...