A tiny piece of moss became the crucial clue that exposed a shocking cemetery crime. Credit: Shutterstock. A moss sample helped investigators prove that cemetery workers had moved ...

Early this year, we learned that Elon Musk may become the first trillionaire in world history. My friends on the left of the political spectrum have been fuming about this story as the ultimate ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all.

A small team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been briefing state legislators and business leaders on the promise and peril of artificial computer intelligence — AI, as it ...

The first billionaire in America was John D. Rockefeller — arguably America’s greatest business mind. As the owner of Standard Oil in the early 20th century, he brought access to cheap energy to the ...

What to do when your job is more or less shaky? "Get active and don't just wait and see what happens," advises an economic psychologist. Unemployment is becoming more widespread in Germany in some ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...