The results of UT-Austin’s first foray into massive open online courses are in. But advocates for the classes recommend looking beyond the fall completion rates — which range between 1 and 13 percent…

Passive oxide layers on metal substrates impose remarkable interfacial resistance for electron and phonon transport. Here, a scalable surface activation process is presented for the breakdown of the passive oxide layer and the formation of nanowire/nanopyramid…

Cybercriminals are zeroing in on the managed service providers that handle computer systems for local governments and medical clinics.

The numbers range from $40,000 to $320,000 and reveal key details about how pay works at big tech companies

This Letter proposes a realistic implementation of the curved relativistic mirror concept to reach unprecedented light intensities in experiments. The scheme is based on relativistic plasma mirrors that are optically curved by laser radiation pressure. Its…

Vaccines are widely agreed to be one of the great achievements of the scientific age. Now that progress is under threat.

We have published National Grid Electricity System Operator’s technical report into the recent power cuts of August 9 2019.

For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 2012 : 2011 2010 : 2009 : 2008 : 2007 : 2006 2005 : 2004 : …

DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization - DeepPrivacy/README.md at master · hukkelas/DeepPrivacy

A great idea hiding behind a terrible implementation

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed Saturn on 20 June 2019 as the planet made its closest approach to Earth this year, at approximately 1.36 billion kilometres away.

IBM introduces its latest Z mainframe, the z15. Here's a detailed look at the changes and enhancements that were made including the new system architecture and CPU microarchitecture.

The long read: From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious

The State Department has warned Americans about China’s growing use of exit bans, sometimes used to keep Americans in China for years.

jQuery has lately fallen out of favor in web development, but it still powers an estimated 74 percent of sites and paved the way for modern web frameworks.