Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

Why a banned African knowledge project terrified global powers — and why reviving it could redefine Africa’s future today.

Americans are awash in information. Most of us walk around with devices that give us instant access to all the knowledge in human history. But before you could Google it, and long before we met Alexa, ...

Less than 2% of the human genome encodes proteins 1. A grand challenge for genomic sciences has been mapping the functional elements — the regions that determine the extent to which genes are ...

The human genome sequence provides the underlying code for human biology. Despite intensive study, especially in identifying protein-coding genes, our understanding of the genome is far from complete, ...

Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone ...

The world received word yesterday that the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica would stop producing hardbound, paper copies of their venerable reference. Actually, they stopped in 2010 but didn’t ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Can you imagine (or remember) living in a world without Wikipedia? If you wanted to know the basic facts on a given topic, what would you do? You could get a physical encyclopedia, but after you did, ...

The encyclopedia will serve as a key reference source during the COP31 process, presenting data-driven evidence of the role ...

Sept 11 (Reuters) - Perplexity AI is the latest artificial intelligence company to be hit with a lawsuit by copyright holders alleging infringement after Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster ...