How much do you really know about your ancestors? Maybe you know what countries they came from, what languages they spoke or what tribes they belonged to. But the details that help us understand ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

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Ahead of the annual Root 100 awards, we’re taking a look at the life of The Root’s founder, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates was born Sept. 16, 1950 in Keyser, W.Va. He grew up in the small neighboring ...

Google claims to have developed a quantum computer algorithm that is 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputers. This would bring the technology another step closer to real-world ...

Understanding plant root systems is vital to improving crop productivity and climate adaptation, yet their complex underground structures remain difficult to characterize. Conventional imaging methods ...

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 ...

Brent’s Method is a robust, efficient algorithm for finding zeros of functions, combining bisection, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation. It is widely used in scientific computing. Adding ...

Stage and screen stars and Oklahoma natives Kristin Chenoweth and Tracy Letts, along with former Oklahoma City Thunder star Chris Paul, will be featured on the upcoming season of "Finding Your Roots." ...