Preprints are academic papers that haven't been peer-reviewed yet. When preprints make news, that's often overlooked.

A German musicologist complained in 1954 that they reminded him of "barking hell-hounds."

Ada Lovelace wrote extensive notes on the world’s first computer. Her innovations foreshadowed those used in twentieth-century PCs.

The first message sent through the ARPANET was “LO.” It was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the network crashed after the first two letters.

Researchers claim to have turned back time inside a quantum computer. Meanwhile, most of us are still trying to wrap our minds around what that even means.

Welcome to Ask a Professor, our series that offers an insider’s view of life in academia. This month we interviewed Bonnie Nardi.

Internet search has had a profound impact on our own internal makeup—on how we learn, and how we think.