Today, organisations such as Unesco, the UN body for education, science and culture, are grappling with how schools and universities can respond to rising misinformation and declining trust in ...

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

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 ...

Why Rangan supports her son to pursue Computer Science knowing the uncertainty of the tech world. Yamini Rangan knows better than most that the rules of tech are being rewritten in real time. She runs ...

Oxford’s top ranking is driven by its exceptional teaching score of 99.9, the highest among the top five institutions. The university also recorded strong results in research quality (98.8) and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

UC Berkeley has long been considered among the world’s most selective colleges and is home to top-ranked programs in computer science, data science and statistics. UC Berkeley students seeking to add ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...