What began as a summer learning project has turned into a scientific discovery. An American high school student has ...

GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

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This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...

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.

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

When you throw something in the recycling bin, where does it really end up? The average person in the United States generates almost 5 pounds of trash each day, according to the Environmental ...

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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 ...