Six years ago, the last college football season with the Bowl Championship Series rankings delivered an unforgettable national championship game. The 2013 season ended Jan. 6, 2014, with Florida State ...

College and school students at Beihang University in Beijing watch Shenzhou XVI crew members conduct a science experiment on Thursday inside Tiangong space station. Kuang Linhua / China Daily The ...

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics. During the talk, entitled "Plenty of room at the bottom," he described the ...

Based on the aggregated BCS computer rankings, here’s how the top 15 teams would be ordered: This new ranking offers a unique look at team performance metrics, revealing potential discrepancies with ...

It's a different year, with more teams in the College Football Playoffs, but Alabama is still a lightning rod for criticism. The Crimson Tide were left in the CFP field of 12 and, in fact, were not ...

With college football’s version of Selection Sunday rapidly approaching — and the debate roaring over who belongs in the playoff field versus who should be left out — has anyone stopped to wonder what ...

There are several interesting takeaways here, but perhaps the most notable is that Notre Dame sits at No. 10 — exactly where the CFP committee placed the Irish. Their slide to tenth this past Tuesday ...

Another eye-catching discrepancy involves the Sooners. Oklahoma currently sits comfortably as the No. 8 seed in the committee’s bracket. But the computers paint a very different picture. If the ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...