Quantum computers are still a work in progress but quantum sensors are already in use at hospitals, laboratories and by ...

The Computer Science Teachers Association is launching a multistate, $11-million initiative this summer to prepare thousands ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of years later. Scientists have now discovered that a molecular system once ...

Speech-to-text capability is now baked into all modern computers. But what if you didn’t have to dictate to your computer? What if you could type just by thinking? Silicon Valley startup Sabi is ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...

NASA's Artemis II flight around the moon will expose astronauts to space weather. Space scientist Patricia Reiff tells Live Science how solar flares and radiation will impact the lunar mission.

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...

Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the ...

Researchers have identified a surprising brain pattern that may help explain why people with ADHD often struggle to stay focused. Even while awake, their brains can slip into brief episodes of ...

The most capable open-source desktop automation agent — 75.0% on OSWorld, surpassing human performance. Supports OpenAI GPT-5.4 and Anthropic Claude. Cross-platform. Production-ready. Coming soon: MCP ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...