The old computer science curriculum isn’t doing the job it should in preparing students for the modern realities of wrangling ...

In this episode, we take a deeper look at whether education research can ever truly be neutral and what happens when ideology ...

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ...

Implications matter. If there is ‘only’ a 0.000003% chance something would break, but that would bring down a plane, and there are 35 million flights yearly, that would cause 100 plane crashes a ...

So we are volunteering to test out going cold turkey on social media for two weeks – so parents and teens know what they to ...

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

Whether infection of cells by individual virions occurs randomly or if there is some form (s) of competition or cooperativity between individual virions remains largely unknown for most virus-cell ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

If you've spent any time with kids recently, you've probably heard the slang term "six - seven". It seems to have no meaning, ...

The study: Nicholas Bloom and graduate student James Liang, who is also a cofounder of the Chinese travel website Ctrip, gave the staff at Ctrip’s call center the opportunity to volunteer to work from ...

“There’s an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random and unpredictable as possible ...