New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

George Chalhoub argues for transparent and enforceable guidelines for regulating the use of AI in scientific peer review.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

Nyssa Silbiger still recalls the rude remark that reviewer three made in 2014 about her first paper describing her PhD research. “The phrases I have so far avoided using in this review are, ‘lipstick ...

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some ...

“Explain it to me like a fifth grader.” This, or a variation of this prompt, often appears in social media circles discussing the benefits of AI at explaining complex topics in the simplest way ...

Gems — the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database — is a collaboration between 29 multilateral and national development ...

A Johns Hopkins University engineer has developed a specialized AI tool that could do for materials scientists what ChatGPT has done for coders and writers. The new system, called ChatGPT Materials ...

The pain reliever has been a mainstay for Kenvue, spun out of Johnson & Johnson in 2023. A year ago, the maker of Tylenol lauded a federal judge’s dismissal of hundreds of lawsuits alleging the ...

Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming ...