A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

Michigan Technological University's College of Computing will officially launch its new Department of Data Science on July 1, becoming one of a handful of institutions across the nation with an ...

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept ...

Graduate student alums from Austin Peay State University have made a gift to establish the Dr. Samuel Jator Computer Science and Quantitative Methods Endowment.

Psychologists often integrate research findings using meta-analysis to generate robust insights. But a rise in fake ...

A relatively new field of forensic science in India, gait analysis helps identify a person by the way they walk. But this ...

Prolonged computer work or smartphone use can cause eye discomfort. Scientists talked about how to reduce the strain on the eyes when working with digital devices. This was reported by Popular Science ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

If you are glued to the Olympic coverage as I am, you are seeing the commercial from Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly's advertisement uses the scientific method as a narrative frame, drawing a parallel ...

Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. He is also cofounder and board chair of Moderna. Massachusetts has long been a hotbed for innovation. Rebellious ideas — channeled through the ...

Popularity of the computer science major has more than doubled in the last decade. But with companies like Amazon and Alphabet cutting jobs in favor of AI tools, the computer science market has seen ...