Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at ...

Litex is a simple and intuitive open-source computer language for mathematical proofs. It aims to express mathematics as code with verified correctness while staying as close to natural language as ...