Today on “Uncanny Valley,” we unpack the political debacle unfolding in Maine surrounding the campaign of Democratic ...

The focus should be on sensible legislation that requires companies to make their products safer and more age-appropriate ...

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...

Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan's Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts ...

Tennessee Republicans carved up Memphis to eliminate the state’s only Black-majority district. Lawmakers are pursuing or signaling similar efforts in Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi and other states.

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...