How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

What distinguishes families that build strong skills is not money. The Baby’s First Years experiment gave low-income mothers $333 per month and found no effect on children’s cognitive outcomes after ...

For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

New hands-on program helps young learners build curiosity, confidence, and foundational STEM and literacy skills. WEBB CITY, Mo., April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kid Spark Education has announced the ...

Picture a futuristic swarm of robots deployed on a time-sensitive task, like cleaning up an oil spill or assembling a machine. At first, adding robots ...

The discussion of quantum-proofing legacy applications is causing some excitement in the world of cryptography, spurred by ...

Now the evidence is clearer, and the conclusion is more nuanced than either side of the school-funding debate likely prefers.

New AGI lab aims to revolutionize machine learning with symbolic models, moving beyond traditional deep learning.

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

Zain Smith is a first-year PhD student studying marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Industry insiders say AI can ease the strain on sustainability teams and their supply chain partners alike by automating ...

To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to ...