Computing

An expert from a nuclear-test-monitoring system explains how his team is trying to help in the search for the ARA San Juan

A new analysis treats bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as species in an evolutionary model—and finds bitcoin has no selective advantage. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections”

Jobs are not created or lost because of a single technology, but because of the business models designed to leverage the power of the technology

Computer scientists borrowed insights from the fruit fly brain to create a more accurate search algorithm. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Much of the necessary technology already exists

Consumer technologies—whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals—involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home.

This is more than just another industrial revolution—it is something that transcends humankind and even biology

The Library of Congress has your back

The damage that the ransomware caused to Britain’s National Health Service was not a cybersecurity failure in the practicalities but a failure of cybersecurity management at the top level