Independent computer analysts are on high alert. With the spread of artificial intelligence, the risks to our privacy are ...

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According to quantum field theory, the universe may not be in its most stable state. Instead, it could exist in a “false vacuum” — a temporary energy configuration that appears stable but isn’t the ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

Will the reality live up to the hype? by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it ...

A new 30-year analysis reveals that melting land ice is now the main force behind rising global sea levels. Researchers discovered that oceans rose about 90 millimeters since 1993, with most of the ...

For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of 1989 ...

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For the first time, astronomers have caught a much younger version of the Sun creating a giant bubble in space. The discovery was made using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This gaseous bubble, ...