Did electrical failures, not pilot actions, bring down Air India 171? New evidence raises questions about the AAIB probe and Boeing 787 safety.

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Colleges from North Dakota to New Jersey are trying to get students to sign up for A.I. degrees. What they teach varies ...

Every day, billions of people trust computer chips to protect their most sensitive information, ranging from banking ...

Organizations today struggle to handle vast amounts of information stored across multiple databases, registers and systems.

Thomas Mulligan explains the complex nature of time travel by analyzing the inconsistent causal loop (the grandfather paradox) and the consistent causal loop (the bootstrap paradox). Trump can’t stop ...

Quantum computers—systems that process information and perform computations by leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics ...

Two studies in Nature provide a glimpse of what some are interpreting as humanity’s shrinking role in scientific discovery in Perutz’s own field, molecular biology. Both describe a pivotal step ...

For legal reasons, organisations require a human reviewer of generative AI outputs. But this human oversight must be valued ...

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

Cannabis products with higher THC levels may slightly reduce chronic pain, particularly nerve pain, according to a review of multiple clinical trials. The improvement was small and short-lived, while ...