Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

Mona Minkara is in her office with multicolored molecular-model supplies on her desk. Her eyes peek out through holes in a red-and-white model she is inspecting with her hands. The model is about the ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...

During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science. Specifically, I learned that elementary school students are predisposed to ...

The big picture: The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence is prompting a fundamental rethinking of computer science education in the US. As AI-powered tools become increasingly proficient ...

Folco Panizza is assistant professor of prosocial behaviour and decision making at the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy. Surveys are a cornerstone of social-science research. Over the ...

Monkeys in modern-day Thai forests create stone artifacts uncannily similar to those crafted by early humans — challenging the established narrative of human cultural evolution. A new study published ...

AI – or artificial intelligence – is often used as a way to summarize data and improve writing. But AI tools also represent a powerful and efficient way to analyze large amounts of text to search for ...

Discover what data science is, its benefits, techniques, and real-world use cases in this comprehensive guide. Data science merges statistics, science, computing, machine learning, and other domain ...