Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi during an event in Seattle in July, announcing a new “Hour of AI” campaign to demystify AI in the spirit of the group’s past “Hour of Code” initiatives. (GeekWire Photo / ...

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Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they eat, according to a new study. Understanding this behavior of our closest ...

It’s a long way from the Bronx to Barrow. It’s even farther from Fairbanks to Ghana. Lewis Shapiro covered a lot of ground during his 90 years. Shapiro, a sea-ice expert here at the Geophysical ...

Democrats are calling for the creation of a state equivalent of the National Institutes of Health, but first state lawmakers and then voters would need to approve it. By Shawn Hubler and Alan Blinder ...

PsiQuantum, which is targeting an aggressive 2027 timeline to deliver a full-scale commercial-grade quantum computer, said Wednesday that it collected $1 billion in its latest fundraise. The funding ...

The celebration by Pittsburgh in the adjacent visitor’s locker room pierced the somber mood at Rich Rodriguez’s postgame news conference in 2007 as West Virginia’s coach struggled to find the words ...

OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence ...

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) has announced the results of a “groundbreaking” trial with Ciena that sets a performance benchmark for fibre capacity. Part of the Maziv group – which also comprises Vuma, SADV ...

College football rankings are always a matter of intense debate, and a lot of disagreement. How can they not be? A team's place in the AP Top 25 poll, and certainly the College Football Playoff ...