The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous ...

Researchers have discovered that optimizing nanotube shapes can amplify energy fields by 30 times, paving the way for ...

Building robots that operate independently at sizes below one millimeter is incredibly difficult,” it is exceedingly hard to ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...

And, as we changed this means of interaction rather quickly, one way we did it has to do with games. Game engines are now AI ...

And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...

Northwestern students wrestled with high-pressure problems at the Mid-Central Regional International Collegiate Programming Contest held in November.

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Code is the foundation of computing. Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working ...

A research team has delivered an overview of how computational tools are reshaping the design of nonnatural metabolic pathways—engineered biochemical routes that do not exist in nature but enable ...