I have gotten on a Tower Defense game kick, and thought it might be fun to write my own. Well, the level design, "tower" design, etc. would be fun but not the maze traversal algorithm (I don't enjoy ...

The rat in a maze might be one of the most classic paradigms in the study of behavior, but an international team of scientists has put a twist on this experimental motif to push the leading edge of ...

Genetically engineered bacteria, rigged up as a distributed computing system, might help realize synthetic biology’s loftier goals. E. coli thrives in our guts, sometimes to unfortunate effect, and it ...