BEIJING —The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. By this fundamental definition, ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

As deepfakes blur the line between truth and fiction, we’ll need a new class of forensic experts to determine what’s real, ...

The world’s earliest computer was not built in the 19th century by Charles Babbage but over two millennia ago during the Western Han dynasty, according to the China Association for Science and ...

In an interview with Carbon Brief, Santer says the Trump administration is “engaged in a systematic attempt to dismantle climate science” ...

The story of Kryptos and the cryptanalyst who spent decades trying to solve the CIA sculpture greatest mystery.

Spiral scanning creates six distinguishable polarization patterns in ferroelectric films, enabling data storage beyond binary ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) method called BioPathNet helps researchers systematically search large biological data ...

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

The mirror spider can rapidly shift a patchwork of minuscule reflective plates underneath its abdomen’s outer surface, altering the pattern of mirrorlike flashes. This uncommon display comes from ...