21 August 2019
When AIs and humans work together they discover superior solutions to the world’s problems that would elude either working alone. Together, they will change the very process of thinking
25 April 2019
Why are we stuck with the QWERTY keyboard? The history of the most commonly used keyboard layout is a sometimes murky story of commercial opportunism, critics with ulterior motives and the stubborn persistence of an idea that's seen off hundreds...
6 February 2019
A decade ago, two mathematicians produced a solution to one of the most difficult maths problems ever. The only problem was, no one understood it - until now
31 October 2018
Educationalist Sugata Mitra's pioneering experiments suggest teaching facts doesn't work in the internet age – fostering creativity and collaboration is the key
24 October 2018
Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons is hoping her work building a new type of quantum computer can solve problems we don't even know about
17 October 2018
It's a nightmarish amount of work to figure out how to build a molecule from scratch. Now machines can do it and it will mean a bounty of new drugs and materials
10 October 2018
China, Japan and the US are racing to build the first exascale computer – but devising programmes clever enough to run on them is a different story
28 February 2018
Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve
1 November 2017
After decades of hype, quantum computers are poised to prove their superiority over classical machines. Now the race is on to figure out what to do with them
25 October 2017
We are all too easily bamboozled by the quantum world's complexity – now artificial intelligence is venturing where human minds fear to go
