In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...

Is Darpa’s Kids’ Initiative Funding Tomorrow’s Mathletes or “Terminator 5: Recess”? The government's sci-fi defense research arm is calling for ways to get kids interesting in scientific careers. Is ...