A large study shows that AI can enhance creative thinking by encouraging exploration rather than efficiency alone.

On any typical day, you don’t have to search far to find students on campus coding through the night. At the end of spring quarter, 95 Northwestern students dedicated 24 hours to collaborate and ...

One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an ...

Collaborative and fast-paced, hackathons are coding-based competitions designed to test teams’ abilities to solve problems and innovate in a convivial and supportive atmosphere. During the recent ...

What is quantum computing? A high schooler today might be able to tell you. Ohio’s educational institutions are mobilizing to improve how they teach computer science to kids in K-12 schools, but ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat ...

Outwardly, we praise innovation. Inwardly, we harbor a visceral aversion to it, studies have found. By Matt Richtel Creativity is lauded as vital, and seen as the lifeblood of great entertainment, ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...

For centuries, intelligence has been regarded as the hallmark of human capability. It has traditionally been measured through logical reasoning, problem-solving, and the ability to process and ...