From sunglasses to ketchup, zippers to lip balm, ordinary objects carry epic stories that span centuries. In ‘The History of Every Thing,’ we dig into the surprising science, curious origins, and ...

Sam Altman says the one-person billion-dollar company is coming. Maybe I could be that person—if only I could get my ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is automating core parts of software development, forcing engineers to rethink their roles.

It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched university students’ brains as they learned to code. The team used functional ...

In today’s digital age, computers have become an integral part of our daily lives. From the moment we wake up to check our smartphones to the complex systems managing our cities’ infrastructure, ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Though computer science requires high cognitive skills in general, a significant portion of computer science education is based on applying these skills in the concrete context of programming. With ...

The name of Poland’s first computer referenced the river running through Wrocław and the country’s one-thousandth anniversary. On 26 January 1961, the ELWRO electronics plant (Wrocławskie Zakłady ...