A new way to generate random numbers can improve mathematics, cybersecurity and even predictions about the future. How does it work, and what does it mean for us?
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Science + Tech – Articles, Analysis, Opinion
Displaying 3201 - 3225 of 3649 articles
This scientific field suggests people have been passing along memes since long before the birth of the internet. What makes one bit of culture take off, while another sinks from sight?
By 2020, the cybersecurity industry will need 1.5 million more workers than will be qualified for jobs. What’s the solution? Getting high school and college students excited about the industry.
There is a way to improve safety across a rapidly evolving range of advanced mobility technologies and vehicles. The answer is connectivity.
What we and other responders learned that day would go on to spark major changes in U.S. emergency response efforts.
Tragedies involving building collapses prompt structural engineers to figure out what happened, and how to prevent it from recurring.
Forget high-end design and cutting-edge communication. The new Watch is a fitness device and heralds a shift for the company – from enabling self-expression to nudging users toward self-mastery.
The Federal Communications Commission has broad power to support fast, affordable internet service reaching every home in the U.S. What are its limits – and its possibilities?
Disparagement humor makes a punchline out of a marginalized group. Racist or sexist jokes, for instance, aren’t just harmless fun – psychologists find they can foster discrimination.
Pollen is all around us, is extremely durable and can provide clues about where someone’s been. A new genetic technique will make it easier to use pollen evidence in criminal investigations.
It’s true that sophisticated hackers may be able to tilt the presidential election. But the more likely threat to democracy comes from sore losers who sow doubt about voting integrity.
People with disabilities are often disappointed with their devices’ performance, and choose not to use them. To encourage innovation, a new competition tests assistive technologies.
Augmented reality systems need to display relevant information in a useful location. That’s impossible without eye tracking.
Modifying chemicals’ molecular properties can make ‘splitting’ hydrogen from water more efficient.
What do we know about Russia’s cyber strategy, capabilities, and intentions? This top-notch adversary is more advanced and stealthier than any other.
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
Seymour Papert’s vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.
No longer dismissed as an undesirable negative trait to be avoided, humor is having a heyday among experimental psychologists.
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
It’s not a good idea to simply rely on methods that have provided accurate predictions in the past.
Relationship education programs are meant to strengthen low-income couples, with the idea children would benefit. But focusing on communication skills overlooks what really matters to these Americans.
The top cyberspy agency couldn’t stay immune from attacks forever. What does it mean for governments, companies and internet users as a whole that the NSA has been hacked?
Studies can’t predict an individual’s behavior. But meta-analyses of social science research turn up differences in men’s versus women’s leadership styles, on average.
Algorithms can discriminate, even when their designers don’t intend that to happen. But they also can make detecting bias easier.
Azteca ants are self-appointed protectors of coffee plants on Mexican plantations. But they have a lot to contend with from other insects.