When you swing a tennis racket or catch a set of keys, you aren’t thinking about wind resistance or gravity. Yet, to perform that motion, your brain is solving a massive physics problem in ...

Computer scientists Maria Apostolaki, Benjamin Eysenbach, and Yasaman Ghasempour; chemists William Jacobs and Erin Stache; physicist Isobel Ojalvo; and mathematician Bartolomeo Stellato are members of ...

A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

As Valentine’s Day approaches at Stanford, some students may be gearing up for first dates — not with people they met on ...

Explore the urgent need to transform India's engineering education to meet evolving demands in the AI-driven job market.

Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...