As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro has solved multiple decades-old Erdős math problems, but Fields Medalist Terence Tao says the wins ...

Understanding a molecule that plays a key role in nitrogen fixing – a chemical process that enables life on Earth – has long ...

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

Allan Sun is a software and systems engineer at Apple, where he works on real-time system software and infrastructure for Apple’s in-house 5G modem silicon platforms (C1X), one of the company’s most ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

The d-wave quantum computer is making a lot of noise in 2025, and honestly, it’s not just hype. For years, people talked about quantum computers as if they were some far-off dream. Now, with D-Wave’s ...

BART trains didn't run for seven hours because of a computer equipment problem. This is the fourth major BART outage issue since May. Commuters were left to find alternative modes of transportation ...

BART advised riders that residual delays may continue. In a statement, the agency blamed “a computer equipment problem” that resulted from an upgrade it was performing on its communication and ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

According to Satya Nadella, a breakthrough in analog optical computing has been published in Nature, highlighting new methods to solve complex real-world problems with significantly greater efficiency ...