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 ...

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Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNA At the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February 2001, the ...

Two weeks ago, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century died. Craig Venter was a legend in genomics — a self-styled maverick who made a career of challenging institutional science and ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

Balasundar acquired the skills that landed her those competitive internships not only through the university’s rigorous academic program, but also its nationally acclaimed Formula One club, Spartan ...

It should be a tough time to be a software engineer: Coding is a favorite early artificial-intelligence use case and layoffs are spreading through the tech industry. But job postings in the ...

Online conspiracy theories claiming that Michael Jackson is still alive have resurfaced once again, driven by renewed circulation of old interview footage featuring burn survivor Dave Dave. The viral ...

Craig Morton played 18 seasons in the NFL for the Cowboys, Giants, and Broncos. He was inducted into Denver's Ring of Fame in 1988. Morton lost his job in Dallas to a Hall of Famer and was traded for ...