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In a highly divided country like the US, the legal legacy of slavery and racism is not some old scar

CAMBRIDGE  —  In an October 2013 address at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law lecture theater, I showed students a “class photo” of the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court and challenged them to “spot the difference.” It wasn’t a case for Sherlock Holmes: Of the 11 justices, all were white, and only one was a woman, the solitary, if indomitable, Baroness Hale.

Liquid explosive detection systems approved by Department for Transport for use in aviation security.

The highlights reel of IBM’s steady progress in quantum computing was on full display at the company’s 2021 Quantum Summit presented last month while most

Quantum advantage, the point at which a quantum computer out-perform classical computers in some tasks, may only be two years away if improvements in error

Nov. 15, 2021 — IBM today announced a 127-quantum bit (qubit) ‘Eagle’ processor at the IBM Quantum Summit 2021. The company said the processor is a [...]

Suzanne Degges-White has thoughts on why we need to change our thinking.

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Canadian Hurricane Centre projection for Tropical System Two. Photo: Environment Canada Environment Canada has issued a Tropical Cyclone warning in nine regions across Nova Scotia. Tropical System Two is the current name of the storm tracking towards Nova Scotia. It formed off the coast of North Carolina Monday morning. The Canadian Hurricane Centre says they will continue to monitor the system but right now they do not anticipate it will be making landfall anywhere in Canada. The current p...

Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow brought his groundbreaking ideas, which he pioneered with his late friend and fellow psychologist Amos Tversky, into mainstream culture — and now he’s about to release a new book. He was born in Tel Aviv but spent his childhood in Paris, where he and his family became caught up in Nazi-occupied France. He is a self-described and well-documented constant worrier, and his continuous questioning of himself and others is also a source of his cr...