Computing

The case for DNA as an archive has been the same for a decade. It is denser than anything engineered, it keeps for centuries in the cold and the dark, and it draws no power while it sits there. The…

Server racks do not usually need plumbing. The one at the National University of Singapore, demonstrated to guests on 6 August 2026 and announced on 17 August, has it in every unit: pumps, filters, a…

Ask two neuroscientists to point to the same spot in the human brain and you may get two different answers. One is looking at a stained tissue slice under a microscope, counting cell layers a…

Picture an ant trying to walk a trail while a herd of elephants stampedes down the same path. That is roughly the problem Prem Kumar and his group at Northwestern set themselves, and the ant,…

Ask a chatbot for a proof and you brace for a confident, wrong answer. So there is a certain irony in what a team of four researchers reported this week: they asked a language model to help with a…