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In the interconnected world of big data, it’s no secret the field of computer science is booming. At Northwestern, the number of computer science majors has grown more than 600 percent since 2011, ...

If your personal data, like your name, phone number or email address, is on the dark web, you'll be more vulnerable to ...

Sophos provided details of changing tactics by Chinese APT groups over a five-year period, involving a shift towards stealthy ...

Other times they become the figurehead of what was really a collective breakthrough. But if there was a true father of ...

The potential military applications of light are straight out of science fiction ... casts an inverted image of the exterior world onto a wall. Descartes later did a rather dramatic examination ...

‘What is time?’ asks physicist Brian Cox, who has been debating the question with watch brand IWC. ‘It’s part of the laws of nature, but then it becomes different things in quantum mechanics, and then ...

My condolences to illegal immigrants, to drug dealers, and to the apostles of the climate apocalypse. My condolences to ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

Scott Hawkins just turned 55 and has lived for the past ten years about 40 minutes outside Atlanta — drive north “until you see cows,” he says. After a brief stint as a teacher, he’s worked in ...

Knowable Magazine John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton shared the award for their work on artificial neural networks and machine learning Sarah Kuta Computer scientist and meteorologist Amy McGovern ...