Funded by an Office of Naval Research grant worth nearly $800,000, Gollamudi and her lab group are developing a novel ...

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Perplexity has introduced “Computer,” a new tool that allows users to assign tasks and see them carried out by a system that coordinates multiple agents running various models.

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Trisha Pasricha’s Jan. 19 Ask a Doctor column, “Five ways to lower your colorectal cancer risk as cases rise,” provided some interesting information. But the most important paragraphs of the article ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

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Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...