The NSA warned us that meddling around with quantum computing could pose a security risk. The foundations of our crypto-graphic knowledge could be shaken to its very core by the rise of quantum ...

Hunger is an ugly social menace we would love to see resolved. It looks like MIT researchers may be getting close with their new “Food Computers”. Advanced greenhouses that use software to control for ...

Instead of putting circuits inside a computer, MIT researchers have figured out something interesting – how to make bacteria behave like tiny transistors and then wire those microbes together to ...

In 2011, Caleb Harper found himself in Japan shortly after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima as part of a “motley crew” sent by MIT’s Media Lab who were tasked with finding creative solutions to ...

For humans, identifying items in a scene — whether that's an avocado or an Aventador, a pile of mashed potatoes or an alien mothership — is as simple as looking at them. But for artificial ...

Early computers could perform fairly complex calculations just by arranging a few analog circuits. By choosing appropriate resistor and capacitor values, arithmetic summers, integrators, and ...