Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

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A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New York City office. I walk past it multiple times a day, and one line of text ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Full BART service is expected to resume after a nearly seven-hour systemwide shutdown halted trains Friday morning due to a computer equipment problem. The transit agency says ...

All BART stations reopened for service late Friday morning after a computer problem shut down train service systemwide for hours, according to the transit agency. Starting at 4:30 a.m., issues arose ...

BART trains didn't run for seven hours because of a computer equipment problem. This is the fourth major BART outage issue since May. Commuters were left to find alternative modes of transportation ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...

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