Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

PARENTS BARRY WELL, SOME PARENTS ARE WORRIED. THEY FEEL THAT WATERSHED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL SHOULD HAVE SHARED ALL OF THE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE ENTIRE SCHOOL COMMUNITY, NOT JUST ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

An app for segmentation and classification of images of cells from optical microscope. This project uses marker controlled watershed (openCv), and pretrained ResNet-50 model (tensorflow) ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

Despite growing up an hour and a half away from the Gorge Amphitheatre, Zach Top had never been to the landmark Washington venue until Watershed Festival booked the then up-and-coming country artist ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...

Water molecules represent a powerful but largely underappreciated foothold in drug binding studies. See how ColdBrew, an algorithm designed by corresponding author Marcus Fischer, PhD (left) and first ...

Drinking Water to Lose Weight: What’s the Idea? You've probably heard many of the ways water is good for you – it helps move waste out of your body, helps your cells work the way they should, ...