The first full Moon of 2026 is expected to make a dramatic arrival on January 3rd, dazzling the United Kingdom's winter skies with an extremely bright and full brilliance. This year's full Moon in ...

China plans to use biotechnology-powered troops to make the People’s Liberation Army a “world-class military” by 2049, a damning US report has said CHINA is on the verge of deploying war-ready super ...

Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent ...

Sometimes, the things we can do for our happiness are small and easy: getting a little sun, saying thank you, lending a hand. Other times, they take a little more practice and work. That’s the case ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

In the latest of James Mods series - James shows you how to electroplate at home - it's not really all that difficult, if you take a little time (and care!). We also need to stress to take care when ...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprang to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere. While still taking core classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

When I was seven years old, something happened that I still think about today. It was in Astana, Kazakhstan — back then it was called Akmola. After school, I would walk home with my stepbrother, his ...

In August, an amateur French astronomer, Adrien Coffinet, messaged an email list dedicated to asteroid and comet research with an announcement. He’d identified a new quasi-moon: “2025 PN7 seems to be ...