For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (Image: NASA/ESA/STIS) NASA spots a young Sun-like star blowing a giant hot gas bubble. First ...

In fact, it’s probably going to make our lives much, much worse By Séamas O'Reilly It’s been a big week for AI boosters. There is, of course, a very good chance that this opening sentence would be ...

According to quantum field theory, the universe may not be in its most stable state. Instead, it could exist in a “false vacuum” — a temporary energy configuration that appears stable but isn’t the ...

You've heard of it being hot enough to cook an egg. How about it being cold enough to freeze a bubble? The Imagination Station shares a fun snow day experiment. Winter storm drone footage shows frozen ...

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 ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...