More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

A police officer who wrote erotic stories on his work laptop has been sacked. A Metropolitan Police misconduct hearing was told that Detective Constable Thomas Sewell used work downtime to write a ...

Weaver ants’ feet have an incredibly strong grip—individual members of one species can, without slipping, hold an entire dead bird hanging off the edge of a table. And the mighty insects rarely work ...

Abstract: Quantum circuit simulation is playing a critical role in the current era of quantum computing. However, quantum circuit simulation suffers from huge memory requirements that scale ...

17-old-old Chicago rapper BabyChiefDoIt claims that his recent comments about using ChatGPT for lyrics was taken out of context. On Aug. 11, the "Went West" artist visited Power 105.1, where, around ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

ROCHESTER — Will Rochester's proposed sports complex be a $65 million project that becomes worth every penny and a civic source of pride? Or might it not come close to paying for itself? When it comes ...

William Ross does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders detail the different ways that evolving AI technologies will be used in drafting legislation. "Regardless of what anyone thinks of any of this, regardless of whether ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence helps show how the compounds needed for life could come from space. The ...