This is what CES is really all about. Not just massive booths and headline-grabbing announcements, but smaller companies with big ideas. They’re all on display at one of my favorite CES events, Pepcom ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

But how well can AI perform when it comes to solving genuine, high-level research problems? To date, there is still no widely accepted realistic methodology for assessing AI's capabilities to solve ...

Everyone’s heard the advice to “sleep on it” when facing a tough problem. Turns out there’s real science behind that old wisdom. Researchers at Northwestern University have shown that dreams ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was earlier this month (Jan. 2) when Burmese python hunter Carl Jackson caught one of the heaviest pythons on record in Florida ...

As the official celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence culminate on July 4, a well-financed, privately funded initiative will kick off to try to ...

As the official celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence culminate on July 4, a well-financed, privately funded initiative will kick off to try to ...

Illustrating physics problems with Web VPython in Python. Learn how to build clear 3D visualizations for motion and forces, and bring physics concepts to life with interactive animations and simple ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

Emily A. Buddle has received funding from the Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, the Australian Research Council and Meat and Livestock Australia. She is currently an ...