Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any ...

Gas turbines are visible at an xAI data center in Memphis, Tenn., on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images) With energy demand to power artificial ...

When a company with tens of thousands of software engineers found that uptake of a new AI-powered tool was lagging well below 50%, they wanted to know why. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the ...

You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted but elated. The view of the city below is gorgeous, and you want to capture the moment on camera. But it’s already ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted but elated. The view of the city below is gorgeous, and you want to ...

For elementary students, math problem-solving often feels like a puzzle without all the pieces. They know there’s a solution somewhere, but they can’t quite see how it all fits together. Behind every ...

While much of advertising these days is being transformed and increasingly automated by AI, including the creation and targeting of ads, one crucial aspect remains stubbornly human: measurement. For ...

Sharon Latten Clark, a school leader and Louisiana state board of education member, understands better than most how crucial attendance is to student success. A New Orleans native with 30 years of ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

Estuary Technologies Inc. has raised $17 million in early-stage funding to try to merge batch and streaming data into a single pipeline so it can simplify how information is fed into artificial ...

An Amazon Web Services data center situated near single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Data centers are creating problems for the congested, overburdened U.S. power ...