The 2,500 questions that make up the exam are specifically designed to probe the outer limits of what today’s AI systems cannot do.

Why does colorectal cancer defy the rules of the immune system? In most cancers, more regulatory T cells (Tregs) mean a worse outcome — but in colon cancer, it's the opposite. A groundbreaking study ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he will direct the U.S. Department of Justice to reclassify cannabis as a less dangerous drug. Here’s a look at what that would mean for people ...

If you’re human, you’ve probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you’ve noticed that this seems to lessen ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Whether or not God exists “is not just one question among others — it is the question,” says one author of a newly translated book about the interplay between science and faith. “It asks whether we ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

SAN DIEGO — Experts are raising the alarm on the resurgence of unproven claims related to the causes of autism. Unverified assertions about Tylenol® usage during pregnancy and vaccines administered to ...