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 ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

The number of people living with dementia worldwide was estimated at 57 million in 2021 with nearly 10 million new cases recorded each year. In the U.S., dementia impacts more than 6 million lives, ...

“Paradoxically, the future might involve a high degree of automation to achieve a more authentically human journalism.” A significant portion of designing a text on future scenarios in the media ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Vicky Yao is an assistant professor of computer science and a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. To address this gap, Rice University researchers and collaborators at Boston ...