What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if all sorts of puzzles we thought were hard turned out to be easy?

The Computer Science Ph.D. Program is designed in a manner that works for the full-time students but also the flexibility of the part-time student. Students are required to complete 72 hours of core ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

I met Andy maybe five or six years ago. We had spent some time together in Vancouver, but we hadn’t worked together before. It wasn’t until the premiere of “Babylon” in L.A. that Andy came up to me ...

Science itself isn’t the problem how it’s communicated often is. Complex findings are simplified, incentives distort messaging, and uncertainty gets buried. This video explores why well-intentioned ...

Groundbreaking research published in The Lancet suggests that most people who believe they’re sensitive to gluten are actually reacting to other factors like FODMAPs or brain-gut dynamics. The study ...

Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. Some widely-accepted notions of career planning can be problematic in their ...

A class of third-graders are given six Lego pieces. They have to make a duck out of it. The duck could be sitting, swimming or flying. But, no duck should look the same. This is how the third-graders ...

The Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin ranks No. 9 nationally among undergraduate programs in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. Its Artificial ...

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 ...

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.

Abstract: In past studies on the combined modal split and traffic assignment (CMSTA) problem, there are problems of not considering the three critical factors simultaneously: the user equilibrium (UE) ...