Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” It’s a testing method as ...

Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” Trump administration issues ...

The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either.

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...

Scientists used the quipu’s data to build working spreadsheets, file systems, and encryption tools, rivaling conventional computing methods.