There are many patterns of collective behavior in biology that are easy to see because they occur along the familiar dimensions of space and time. Think of the murmuration of starlings. Or army ants ...

Custom-assemble five fluorine atoms with a few other atoms, and the product is a molecule. It’s also a computer. The problem that it’s solved is a simple one, but the exercise provides experimental ...

Xiao Wang, assistant professor of computer science at Northwestern Engineering, received a $160,000 gift from Facebook to research Efficient Multi-Party Computation (EMP)-Toolkit, an open-source, ...