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

High-entropy alloys are promising advanced materials for demanding applications, but discovering useful compositions is difficult and expensive due to the vast number of possible element combinations.

News: At the India AI Impact Summit 2026, two sessions—one on responsible and ethical AI, another on BioAI and biomanufacturing—converged on the same message for CIOs: India’s AI future will be ...

It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

High-entropy alloys are promising advanced materials for demanding applications, but discovering useful compositions is difficult and expensive due to the vast number of possible element combinations.

Researchers led by Yasunori Ichihashi at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan recently examined how different kinds of ...

Jay Cowan still worries about the Rulison blast’s proximity to the Colorado River and expresses disbelief at the 107 days that radioactive gas was burned in order to test whether the radionuclides ...

The age of AI-generated music and AI-aided fiction has arrived. Will “canned” art push musicians, writers, and others out of jobs?

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

Low Earth orbit is filling up fast, and the old tools for keeping satellites from colliding are starting to look as dated as paper road maps in the age of GPS. Instead of relying only on ground radars ...

A long-standing mystery in spintronics has just been shaken up. A strange electrical effect called unusual magnetoresistance shows up almost everywhere scientists look—even in systems where the ...

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