The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has consumed researchers, start-up founders, and tech juggernauts alike.

The ice sheet may be undergoing thermal convection, resembling a "boiling pot of pasta," according to researchers.

A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's ...

To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that generates a massive amount of internal heat. Their flight muscles work so ...

Many of the latest large language models (LLMs) are designed to remember details from past conversations or store user profiles, enabling these models to personalize responses. But researchers from ...

Scientists used powerful computer models to show a more stable discrete time crystal. Very simplified toy models help scientists get started, but the real world is far more complex. In this case, more ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

The Federal Aviation Administration intends to further evaluate competency-based training and assessment this year, but remains reluctant to fully endorse the model despite widespread international ...

The African coast is under threat from rising seas, and a certain weather event significantly exacerbated the situation.

The Apple Macintosh personal computer is an iconic piece of tech history—with an emphasis on the word history. Compared to ...

In an early test of how AI can be used to decipher large amounts of health data, researchers at UC San Francisco and Wayne State University found that generative AI tools could perform orders of ...