Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...

A claim that they received 4 to 5 liters of beer a day has appeared in social media posts, popular articles and books for ...

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...

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Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone. In a first, researchers ...

Thomas Rinsma, a security analyst and hobbyist tinkerer, recently figured out how to create a version of Tetris that runs inside a PDF file. According to a personal website post subsequently ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. A new proof marks the ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

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“I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy,” Miley Cyrus told Out magazine in 2015, when she was 22, “and I think that’s what I had to understand: Being a girl isn ...