It’s happened to all of us at one time or another. We’ve just met someone, he or she finds out that we work with computers, and those feared words come out, “Oh, you work with computers. Maybe you can ...

When he was in high school, Josh Geise, a fifth-year computing security student, was involved in the Virginia Student Training and Refurbishment Program. Through the program, Geise became a program ...

Sam Nadol has always enjoyed taking things apart to see how they work. In sixth grade, he was poking around inside an old family computer, taking it apart and putting it back together. It was so much ...

Most of us use smartphones and computers every day, but research consistently shows that people rely on only a fraction of ...

Part I. What are superminds?: Would you recognize a supermind if you saw it on the street? ; Can a group take an intelligence test? -- Part II. How can computers help make superminds smarter?: How ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...