Technology

Sean Kirkpatrick looked into the skies and deep into government archives for extraterrestrials. What he found is, to him, more concerning than little green men.

A materials scientist unravels the hype around research on high-temperature superconductor research like LK-99

Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler

Sallie Pero Mead made major discoveries about how electromagnetic waves propagate that allowed objects to be detected at a distance

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough to crack the backbone of the math that keeps things secret will be turned on.

A new mathematical proof helps show whether a sequence of numbers is “pseudorandom”

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

A new study used machine learning to “autocomplete” the life trajectories of six million Danish people—and forecast when they might kick the bucket.