The widespread sharing of common or standardized APIs confers rich opportunities for choices of operating system or library implementations for the programming of applications. […]

The beauty of classical computing is that developing algorithms is incredibly easy. In contrast, in more than 25 years of intense research on quantum computing, only a few dozen algorithms have been developed. […]

Governance and independent oversight on the design and implementation of all forms of artificial intelligence and automation is a cresting wave about to break comprehensively on the field of IT and computing. […]

Researchers hunt for ways to keep quantum computing honest. […]

Although smart contracts are Turing complete, it is a misconception that they can fulfill all routine contracts. […]

(Hokkaido University) Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can be integrated into polymers and signal damages or excessive mechanical loads with an optical signal. […]

(Association for Computing Machinery) ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today recognized four individuals with awards for their exemplary service to the computing field. Working in diverse areas, the 2018 award recipients were selected by their peers for longstanding efforts that have significantly shaped the role of computing in society. This year's ACM award recipients made seminal contributions in textbooks and online education, education in the K-12 sphere, the mobile computing […]

(American Chemical Society) Polymers that change their appearance in response to mechanical forces can warn of damage developing in a material before the stress causes structural failure. Researchers now report in ACS Central Science that they've developed a first-of-its-kind elastic polymer blend that displays white fluorescence when deformed and then goes dark after relaxing back to its original shape. […]

(University of Tokyo) In a recent study in mice, researchers found a way to deliver specific drugs to parts of the body that are exceptionally difficult to access. Their Y-shaped block catiomer (YBC) binds with certain therapeutic materials forming a package 18 nanometers wide. The package is less than one-fifth the size of those produced in previous studies, so can pass through much smaller gaps. This allows YBCs to slip through tight barriers in cancers of the brain or pancreas. […]

(John Innes Centre) The precious chemistry of a plant used for 2000 years in traditional Chinese medicine has been unlocked in a project that raises the prospect of rapid access to a wide array of therapeutic drugs. […]

AI and supercomputing are rapidly shifting the way disaster planners, regulators and insurers gauge climate hazards -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Known for climate change work, the pioneer says global warming, AI and genetic engineering are self-inflicted threats to humanity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

The science and art of password setting and cracking continues to evolve, as does the war between password users and abusers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

Floods dump tons of pathogen-laden manure into U.S. waterways, often from hard-to-identify farms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]

NYU’s “Sounds of New York City” project listens to the city—and then, with the help of citizen scientists, teaches machines to decode the soundscape. Jim Daley reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com […]