For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

As a relatively new discipline, data science integrates mathematics, statistics, and computer science to analyze diverse forms of data across application domains. Researchers at University of Tsukuba ...

IT consultant and services provider Accenture has agreed to buy Speedtest and Downdetector owner Ookla from Ziff Davis for $1 ...

During the lockdown, Shreya Singhal enrolled in the IIT Madras BS Degree in Data Science while pursuing another course, seeking skills her classroom lacked. From Teaching Assistant to researcher, her ...

Many recent college graduates, especially those with 37 specific majors, are having a harder time finding employment compared ...

The evolution of data architecture is accelerating. In 2025, 85% of DBTA subscribers reported plans to modernize their data platforms-driven largely by the explosive rise of GenAI and large language ...

Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Fabric – to see how they address rapidly evolving ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

The editors of Scientific American look to 2026 as a chance to peer into the future to see what science may be unfolding and what discoveries may lurk on the horizon. But the new year is also a chance ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...