In 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee launched the first ever website. Although simple, it represented years of research into how best to share documents within networked environments. The web quickly evolved ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

Last year, Gartner declared knowledge graphs were at the summit of its Artificial Intelligence Hype Cycle. They stood within the bracket it calls the "Peak of Inflated Expectations," generally ...

It has been an exhilarating year in combinatorics research. In early 2023, mathematicians were stunned when two of the biggest problems in the field were solved in as many months. Now, a third major ...

Upol Ehsan once took a test ride in an Uber self-driving car. Instead of fretting about the empty driver’s seat, anxious passengers were encouraged to watch a “pacifier” screen that showed a car’s-eye ...

A team of researchers has uncovered new clues about how chemicals released by brain cells regulate our attention span. A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU ...