Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...

At the previous SHIFT event there was – naturally – more than an element of cyber security on the agenda, but it was primarily about the anti-ransomware capabilities of rolling back to previous (and ...

The “plot,” such as it is, is a very short, very slapstick take on The Terminator, as a man’s hubris (turning a crank to make ...

For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.

The symbols, discovered on 40,000-year-old artifacts in caves in southwest Germany, may have been a precursor to the first written language ...

In her column “Nostalgic Thoughts,” Alaina Zhang ’27 reminisces on the past and reflects on why we miss it at all. I first learned about the term “immigrant nostalgia” last year, and I finally felt ...

When you think about a new generation taking center stage, you generally think they’re going to be smarter than those who came before them. After all, they have the advantage of greater scientific and ...

When you're sick with a cold or the flu, a hot cup of coffee might feel extra comforting, or it may simply be part of your normal morning routine. However, drinking coffee while taking certain cold ...

A popular California program designed to help people buy their first home is making a comeback. California's Dream For All program is reopening applications next month, offering down payment ...

MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum developed Eliza in the mid-1960s. His views on artificial intelligence were often at odds with many of his fellow pioneers in the field. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

Abstract: Recent studies have revealed that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are generated by introducing imperceptible perturbations to clean images, ...

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 ...