“The list of first-aid procedures that the medical profession encourages laypeople to undertake is short because of concern that tactics applied in ignorance may do more harm than good. Now, however, ...

How did the shabby offices of the late 1700s, with their dim lights, coal-burning fireplaces and quill pens, evolve into the sleek, high-tech work environments that we know today? The answer ...

As part of President Trump’s trip to Asia, the United States signed Technology Prosperity Deals (TPD) with Japan and Korea, expanding, strengthening, and focusing science and technology collaboration ...

Science is collaborative, painstaking and iterative, with progress slow and some unsung scientific heroes lost to time. But every once in a while, a key event, discovery or conceptual breakthrough has ...

Justin Reich has received funding from Google, Microsoft, Apple, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation, education publishers, and other ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on people and society. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,023 adults from ...

“When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The revised version of the theory requires 12 kinds. In the whimsical terminology ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 ...

Flailing in the dark: aeronautics before the 19th century -- Starts and stops: aeronautical progress in the 19th century -- The real beginning: the Wright Flyer -- Seat-of- the-pants design: the era ...

The word “Luddite” has become shorthand for technophobe, but the original rebels of the Industrial Revolution were actually battling a more insidious foe. Ned Ludd, the fictitious leader of the ...