Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking ...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

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Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

While imperceptible to humans, these tiny delays are significant for experiments that rely on pulsars as ultra-precise cosmic ...

A major claim in the older media cycle was that NASA removed the book and related materials. Whatever happened during the original wave of reporting, the current reality is clear: NASA now provides an ...

In the real world, convinced that aliens were planning to beam him into the sky, Daniel says that he repeatedly drove his ...

For decades, scientists have tried to turn the question of alien life from late-night speculation into something you can ...

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...