The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
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2025 was a year of turmoil for many scientists — particularly in the United States, where job cuts and budget slashing have left many reeling. But it was also a year of promising advances in fields ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But, there were also plenty of positive developments in 2025 that offer hope for the coming years. “From a non-US scientist, it’s ...
The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States. Funding cuts, academic lay-offs and vaccine-sceptic policies have widely been seen as an attack on science, ...
The biggest event of 2025 in the PC market has been the end of support for Windows 10. It was positioned as the last major release of the Windows operating system, which would be kept updated by ...
All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward In 2025, researchers watched an interstellar comet, learned about human ...
Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025. But, there were also plenty of positive developments in 2025 that offer hope ...
Ripple effect: Whether AI turns out to be a bubble remains to be seen, but it appears young people remain confident that the technology is the future. Just look at universities, which are seeing more ...
Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler ...
The departments with courses in the top 20 most enrolled this quarter include Civic, Liberal and Global Education (COLLEGE), computer science (CS), aeronautics and astronautics (AA) and math, among ...