A maze of wires and computers is the key to your vehicle's deepest secrets. The Controller Area Network, or CAN, is incredibly complex, but here's what drivers should know about how it keep your ...

MIT has taken a big step toward the ability to use engineered life-forms as a means of sensing, tracking, and even doing basic computing of information.

How Computers Work was a production from 1990 that features a plucky group of high school students on a visit to Boston's Computer Museum to see the museum's gigantic walk-through computer.

The most efficient computer in the known universe is a three-pound blob with no user’s manual: the human brain, which in a day’s work requires no more fuel than the caloric energy in a BLT. In ...

Quantum computers don’t just crunch numbers—they redefine how we understand computing itself. In this video, we break down how qubits, superposition, and entanglement power the most advanced ...

Filling a test tube with molecules made from folded DNA can work as a simple computer. The approach has been used to split two numbers into prime factors. Conventional computers work by passing ...