As our economy, society and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively and from multiple angles.

Data scientists play a crucial role in helping people and organizations use data to make more informed decisions. Since they use advanced practices and technologies to extract and analyze complex data ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...

Researchers have finally resolved a key problem in a 100-year-old theory of color, showing that the qualities we perceive in colors are intrinsic to the mathematics of color space itself. The ...

Organizations struggle to communicate the insights in all the information they’ve amassed. Here’s why, and how to fix it. by Scott Berinato Data science is growing up fast. Over the past five years ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

For more than a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the atomic ...

A groundbreaking new connectome maps every neural connection in an adult fruit fly’s central nervous system, creating an unprecedented view of how the brain and body work together. The findings ...

Modern businesses run on data. Companies regularly capture, store and analyze large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data on consumer behavior, to which they can apply predictive analytics to ...

Computational science is a discipline concerned with the design, implementation and use of mathematical models to analyse and solve scientific problems. Typically, the term refers to the use of ...

Rolex has no shortage of iconic watches. The Submariner. The Daytona. The GMT-Master II. Maybe even the Land-Dweller (one day). But it’s the nicknames that help them catch the popular imagination. The ...

As droughts in the United States become more frequent and longer-lasting, new assessment tools are needed. A new National Academies report examines how the field of drought assessment can better ...