In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body far from water, gave ...

What if the thermal noise that hinders the efficiency of both classical and quantum computers could, instead, be used as a ...

AI is only as good as the data it learns from. Right now, research suggests 73% of health data in AI comes from North America ...

Under the label of “pride”, dominant-caste superiority is being repackaged for the algorithm age. But where does pride end and caste hierarchy begin, especially in a system that relies on some castes ...

A comprehensive invited review published today in Brain Medicine confronts one of the most persistent paradoxes in modern medicine: psychiatry remains the only major clinical discipline that diagnoses ...

Schools must evolve to teach digital literacy, genetics, and sustainability—preparing students not just for future jobs, but ...

People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness ...

People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs and produce appropriate responses. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Cambridge researchers map the convergence of biomarkers, digital phenotyping, and AI toward biologically grounded ...

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