A team of researchers at Queen's University has developed a powerful new kind of computing machine that uses light to take on ...

New simulations reveal that both H1N1 and COVID-19 spread across U.S. cities in a matter of weeks, often before officials realized what was happening. Major travel hubs helped drive rapid nationwide ...

In A Nutshell Newborns can predict musical beats within the first two days of life, but show no brain response to melodic patterns 49 sleeping babies listened to Bach piano pieces while scientists ...

Speechify is available across multiple platforms including the iOS app, Android app, web app, and Chrome extension, with recently expanded Mac and Windows capabilities that allow voice typing ...

Why collaborative exam notes matter?Exam season often feels like organized chaos. Between lecture slides, textbooks, group chat screenshots, and countless PDFs scattered across devices, students spend ...

Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) implants are widely used in cranioplasty, yet the clinical significance of implant surface design ...

Image of the Throne Toilet Computer perched on the side of a toilet. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget) Throne has rocked up to CES 2026 to show off its forthcoming toilet computer which uses computer ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue. Reading time 3 minutes How do we know we’re not ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...