The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending.

One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

A new theory suggests the universe’s greatest secrets are hiding in a “zeptouniverse” that’s ready to be explored—without ...

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...

When the phone ban started, Averill Park bought a ping pong table. It is now so beloved that players said they would choose it over ending the phone ban.

Although superfluids flow indefinitely, scientists just witnessed one stopping. It could be evidence of a superfluid ...

Kevin Kelly, founding editor of "Wired" magazine and a lifelong observer of technology in motion, returns to Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner's "Rule Breaker Investing" for a conversation about ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

So cosmologists feel confident in modelling the universe using the “maximally symmetric” description of space-time in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. This symmetric vision for the universe, ...