A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems. Self-service kiosks at the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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A glitch with an obscure Amazon AMZN0.26%increase; green up pointing triangle database disrupted life for millions of people across the U.S. as core internet services failed to function for an array ...

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 ...

The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. This year’s award went to three ...

Earlier this month, 36 sharp-witted high school students from around the globe stepped foot on the warm and breezy campus of Stanford University. Out of more than 4,000 students from more than 2,000 ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

Thanks to the creative application of new technologies, the 2020s are quietly shaping up to be a golden age of archaeology. Analysis of ancient DNA has resolved long-debated questions about human ...

Homeless services provided by the city of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority are disjointed and lack adequate data systems and financial controls to monitor contracts for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I showcase a vital new prompting technique ...