There’s plenty of precedent for echolocation in the natural world: bats can navigate based on the echo of their chirrups; and blind humans, at least anecdotally, sometimes develop remarkable ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...

If you’ve ever wondered why the content on your online feed seems like it was chosen specifically for you, you can thank an algorithm for that. An algorithm is a set of instructions that tells a ...