Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social science students. Topics will be drawn ...

Join the Master of Science in Computer Science (MS-CS) on Coursera, an advanced degree program offered by the University of Colorado Boulder and hosted online through Coursera’s learning platform.

Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...

Creating a realistic 3D model from a simple image remains surprisingly difficult for artificial intelligence.

Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, novel nanoscale material is incredibly strong and flexible. The interlocked material contains 100 trillion mechanical bonds per 1 square centimeter -- ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

A global experiment tests how humanity could live across the solar system, by dropping volunteers into some of Earth’s most extreme environments. Nearly all tea comes from one plant, yet there are ...

Have you ever looked at a photograph of a raging wildfire, a flooded neighborhood or a starving polar bear and immediately felt something before you even had time to think? Most of us have. When I ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...