Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched ...

Python still leads despite a dip; C edges past C++ for #2; SQL re-enters the top 10 as Perl drops out after last month’s ...

Some activists devoted to ending gun violence had to look twice at the source of the ads for firearms training that flashed on their computer screens. Everytown for Gun Safety, which has made its name ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Physicists have achieved a breakthrough by using a 58-qubit quantum computer to create and observe a long-theorized but never-before-seen quantum phase of matter: a Floquet topologically ordered state ...

When the U.S. Congress passed the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act in August 1990, it honored a young man who had acquired HIV from a blood transfusion five years earlier ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — As technology continues to dominate our way of life, there’s a rapid growth of student interest in the field of computer science amid a current challenge in Virginia to meet ...

Metro State University is expanding its computer science curriculum to include artificial intelligence to help graduates land jobs. Reports across the country show artificial intelligence is leading ...

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...

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