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 ...

NASA’s PExT terminal has shown that spacecraft can seamlessly communicate through multiple government and commercial networks ...

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The tech giant says it will make ‘topological’ quantum computers that can be scaled up faster than competing technologies.

UK MPs are backing the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) “kill switch” that would give the government powers to shut down datacentres and computer systems in the event of an AI system ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Humans are closely related to chimpanzees and bonobos, but what are the key factors that make humans genetically different? A new study looks at the process of DNA methylation, in which chemical tags ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators in maize and Arabidopsis. By using single-cell RNA sequencing, they ...

UNSW Sydney engineers have riffed on the famous Schrödinger's cat analogy to demonstrate a more efficient way to eliminate ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

Conical intersections are crucial molecular switching points in light-driven reactions, but accurately predicting them ...

Photonic devices are hardware systems that can process information using light instead of electricity. These systems could ...