Anthropic will use SpaceX’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to expand Claude capacity, while exploring future orbital AI compute ...

Shortest path algorithms like Dijkstra, BFS, and advanced approximations power everything from Google Maps to network routing. Understanding when and how to apply them can save time and resources in ...

Getting an education is important for a lot of reasons, but there might be one reason you haven’t heard — it could lower your risk of dementia later in life. Decades of research have supported this ...

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...

This video covers the technique of creating space-themed resin art, with a focus on using a hairdryer to produce deep and dramatic nebula effects. By combining dark, metallic, and transparent pigments ...

Section 1. Purpose. Superiority in space is a measure of national vision and willpower, and the technologies Americans develop to achieve it contribute substantially to the Nation’s strength, security ...

To hear Silicon Valley tell it, artificial intelligence is outgrowing the planet that gave birth to it. Data centers will account for nearly half of U.S. electricity demand growth between now and 2030 ...

It is not easy to make collective sense of democracy in America at this moment. On the one hand, many of the institutions that have long anchored our system of ordered liberty remain in place, e.g., ...

Many authors have written about the harm of oversimplification, pointing out that it distorts reality, leads to shallow understanding, impairs problem-solving, and fuels biases. In culture wars, it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...