Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if ...

A new AI framework called THOR is transforming how scientists calculate the behavior of atoms inside materials. Instead of relying on slow simulations that take weeks of supercomputer time, the system ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

Decades of research has shown promise for using microbiome science to solve several problems facing agriculture, but these findings have not yet been translated to practical recommendations for ...

There has been a growing demand in recent years to separate “profound autism” into its own diagnosis, outside current parameters. Since 2013, autism diagnoses have been split into three levels, ...

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 ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

Trisha Pasricha’s Jan. 19 Ask a Doctor column, “Five ways to lower your colorectal cancer risk as cases rise,” provided some interesting information. But the most important paragraphs of the article ...

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...