In a House hearing this week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shined a spotlight on flaws in our drug scheduling system. Cortez stated, "The science says something else." Republicans’ Fourth ...
Hollywood usually bends science to make stories bigger, louder, and easier to sell. But every so often, a film comes along that actually tries to respect the physics, astronomy, engineering, or ...
The computer science (CS) major in the McKelvey School of Engineering, once the biggest major at WashU, is seeing a dramatic decline in enrollment in the 2025-2026 academic year. According to CS ...
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 ...
Super Micro Computer, Inc. today issued the following statement: Supermicro was informed today that the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has unsealed an indictment ...
Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown ...
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...
On February 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the New York Times that he is “open to the idea” that Claude, his company’s flagship AI system, could be conscious: “We don’t know if the models ...
It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...
A devastating landslide on Java's Mount Burangrang buried 34 homes, with 25 confirmed dead and 72 missing. Rescuers continue to dig through debris, hindered by challenging weather and terrain.