Here are 11 free NPTEL data science and analytics courses from leading IITs cover graph theory, Bayesian modelling, Python, R, databases and big-data stats. These are all free to audit, and enrolment ...

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 ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abraham Rubio has wanted to be a software engineer since childhood. On the gaming platform Minecraft, he loved tinkering with “mods,” or alterations to video games created by fans that change elements ...

Insane video shows the moment a small plane made an emergency landing on a golf course in Australia early Sunday afternoon in an apparent flying lesson gone wrong. A pilot instructor and his student, ...

Until very recently, studying computer science — or some variation thereof — was considered among the best bets an incoming college freshman could make. Born near Silicon Valley, 21-year-old Manasi ...

“We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today — and self-termination is most likely.” That’s the disturbing ...