Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Material science, at its core, is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the discovery and ...

On Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, ...

Machine learning allows a computer to teach itself how to solve problems by analyzing large sets of data. Human programmers don't teach machine learning systems how to solve problems, nor do they ...

Machine learning, for all its benevolent potential to detect cancers and create collision-proof self-driving cars, also threatens to upend our notions of what's visible and hidden. It can, for ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once recalled a friend, an artist, who would say ...