Elon Musk’s net worth reportedly tops $1 trillion after SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut, raising questions about valuation, AI revenue, and future IPOs. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

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Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase Date: Friday, May 15, 2026 Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Join us for the Spring 2026 Senior Project Showcase, where graduating seniors from Civil Engineering, Computer ...

Early in the 20th century, physicists were faced with deep questions about what the strange new mathematical framework of the dawning quantum age revealed about the true nature of reality. After ...

Update: Perplexity said in March it would unleash Personal Computer software to work as an artificial intelligence manager for Mac, and now it’s available. Today we're releasing Personal Computer.

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at [email protected]. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

NEW YORK – I should’ve known bringing Andy Weir to a science museum was like bringing a kid to a candy store and asking them to keep their hands in their pockets. The book may be dense with what ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. [CLIP: The spaceship Hail Mary’s operating system (played by Priya Kansara) speaks in ...