In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

Researchers combined AI simulations with NMR data to capture fleeting structures of intrinsically disordered proteins, ...

South Asia Expo in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan Province, June 22, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo) * A centerpiece of the top-level ...

Bionic arms are beginning to tap into nerve signals that linger long after a limb is gone, turning the ghost of movement into real, controllable action. Instead of relying on crude muscle twitches or ...

UC San Francisco received $824 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2025 to drive the discovery, translational, and clinical ...

The hunt to decode one of the world’s strangest writing systems has shifted from a fringe obsession to a serious scientific effort, powered by new tools and a fresh generation of researchers. What ...

Tech companies are building enormous data centres and reconfiguring energy infrastructure across the US, all to power the burgeoning AI industry. On a road trip, Maia Woluchem and Livia Garofalo trace ...

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

As of March 2026, over half of US states have passed an “Age Verification” and “Digital ID” law. These verification systems (sometimes called “age-gating”) add a new dimension to problems that trans ...

Anthropic's new report ranked market research analysts and marketing specialists fifth on its list of eight hundred occupations most exposed to AI displacement-behind only programmers, customer ...

Advanced AI is not something we’re waiting for—it’s quietly moved into our homes, jobs, and even our social lives. By 2040, AI will shape our experiences in unexpected ways, at every level. From ...