Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

Aspiring computer science student Alex Seungyong Yang sees AI as both a challenge and opportunity as he enters university as ...

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. This paper posits a cross-disciplinary framework for conceptualizing consciousness as an emergent phenomenon that transcends ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid says computer science students are struggling to find jobs. Farid said Berkeley grads used to ...