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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 ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, ...

Instead of building seawalls or dikes, Terranova has developed a new way to raise cities to protect them from sea-level rise.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

We live in a time of profound erosion of faith in public institutions of all kinds and at every level. New Mexico’s Water Quality Control Commission may be the latest victim. In May, the commission ...

COMMENTARY Historical Use of Water-Cooling Technologies Water cooling has been a staple in data center operations for decades. The primary method involves using water to absorb heat from information ...

The Environmental Working Group (EWG)'s Tap Water Database reveals the states with the highest numbers of contaminants across their drinking water systems, with some states having more than 150 ...

A research team has developed a powerful computational tool—the Algorithmic Root Trait (ART) extraction method—that can “see” beyond human perception to uncover hidden features in plant roots.

Letters, journals, private scribblings, saved memos, battered boxes bursting with faded photos and jaundiced newspaper clippings. This ephemera, alongside publicly archived material, is the beating ...