Automatic, robotic systems that operate in our physical environment, also known as embodied AI systems, are continually ...

The “one big breakthrough” pattern suggests that total citation counts can mislead. A researcher with one highly-cited paper ...

EPFL professor Robert West and invited professor Ágnes Horvát discuss how the rise of AI is transforming the dissemination ...

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to ...

The Northwestern CS Theory Group and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago co-hosted the Junior Theorists Workshop held ...

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 ...

Researchers discovered that clogged brain “drains” show up early in people at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. These blockages, easily seen on standard MRI scans, are tied to toxic protein buildup linked ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Science itself isn’t the problem how it’s communicated often is. Complex findings are simplified, incentives distort messaging, and uncertainty gets buried. This video explores why well-intentioned ...

Quantum computing promises a new generation of computers capable of solving problems hundreds of millions of times more quickly than today’s fastest supercomputers. This is done by harnessing spooky ...

A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion for its effort to build a ...