As David Patterson observed in 1980, “A RISC potentially gains in speed merely from a simpler design.” Patterson’s principle of simplicity underpins a new alternative to speculation: A deterministic, ...

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A coded passage in “Kryptos,” Jim Sanborn’s sculpture at CIA headquarters, has gone unsolved for decades. After he announced its auction, two researchers stumbled on the answer.

Every modern automobile carries a 17-character vehicle identification number, an alphanumeric string unique to that single car. Since 1981 federal rules have required that ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

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The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications.

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IBM achieved a new quantum milestone by running an error-correction algorithm on standard AMD FPGA chips, reaching 10x faster ...

Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's represent an increasing global health burden. Their complex molecular mechanisms ...

Vulnerability in Dolby's Unified Decoder could be exploited for remote code execution, without user interaction in certain cases.

Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But [Ruth Selman] recently posted a challenge asking if anyone could decrypt ...