The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

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Developers of the computer game Doom released the game's code in 1997, allowing scientists to use it as part of their research. Credit: id Software via ArcadeImages/Alamy. When th ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

The errors that quantum computers make are holding the technology back. But recent progress in quantum error correction has ...

Two popular quantum computing algorithms for problems in chemistry may have very limited use even as quantum hardware ...

Computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life. In recent years, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly. A new National Academies ...

A degree in computer science is as worthwhile as ever. There is, after all, a lot more to the field than just coding. The discipline covers many exciting topics, such as IT system design, security, ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Connecting the dots: For the first time in more than two decades years, computer science enrollment across the University of California system has fallen, a drop some educators see as a reflection of ...

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...