In 1993, Green started compiling 500 years of English slang by sifting through mountains of primary sources. The culmination was Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three-volume reference set containing 10 ...

California-based fusion start-up Inertia Enterprises has raises $450m to commercialise laser-driven inertial fusion and build grid-scale power plants.

The technology industry is obsessed with the future. Many of our modern marvels are rooted in the legacy of Bell Labs, an ...

Is the scientific method really the best approach to learning about the world? A new paper in Collective Intelligence applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

UC Santa Cruz's Innovation Catalyst Proof-of-Concept Program helps move cutting-edge research from the lab out into the world for societal impact.

Khalif Cooper, founder of BLK Tech Connect, is creating a central hub for community gatherings Feb. 23–27, aligned with the CIAA tournament.

Imaging science Ph.D. student Muhammad Akif Qadeer awarded Optica Foundation scholarship for his work in developing ultrafast ...

Scientific and Technical Academy Awards go to advances at Wētā FX, ILM, Framestore and other researchers and developers ...

The Meta chief executive was called to the witness stand in a civil trial over a lawsuit that accuses Instagram of knowingly ...

Artificial Intelligence has sprung up rather exponentially in the past few years, and this is especially possible because of ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...