Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Learn how to create a Python simulation of a tipping stick! In this video, we guide you step by step through coding a physics-based simulation that models tipping motion, friction, and torque. Perfect ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

A new scientific statement on inflammation from the American College of Cardiology confirms the value of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) in clinical decision-making by stressing the ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

After several decades, researchers are finally getting a grasp on when an odd and destructive type of oxygen arises in chemical reactions in living cells and certain batteries. Not all oxygen ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Predictive security uses AI to forecast data risks before they escalate, offering enterprises a path beyond reactive defenses toward proactive protection. As long as cybersecurity has been around, it ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...