Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. No one yet ...

WSU computer science students Edwin Ramirez (left), Wahidullah Rahimi, and Aiden Walker display the apps that they developed to play Indian raga music. When a startup company tasked a Washington State ...

Oct. 2, 2026 NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has demonstrated remarkable pointing stability and given its powerful planet-imaging coronagraph its first look at the cosmos. The telescope can already stay ...

Slicing bytes copies. On a small payload nobody notices, but slice a large packet or image buffer in a loop and the copies ...

"The Intro to Python course was a great experience in continuing education. The professor kept it very mainstream and incorporated several real-world examples where the Python language could be ...

Deep in the forests of Florida’s Key Largo, an opossum is being used to find an animal that researchers rarely see coming. Fitted with a small tracking collar and released back into the wild, the ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) is to conduct basic and applied research ...

Jacob Trefethen, who leads life sciences at the OpenAI Foundation, speaks to Nature about the organization’s ambition to cure disease.

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