In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...

Writing essays takes a ton of time - to say nothing of all the extra time you spend in the research phase, as well as editing each draft to make sure you didn't make any typos or accidentally paste in ...

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

A new analysis shows how shortcuts, paper mills, and pay-to-publish outlets have shaped where math studies appear.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present across all phases of analytical ...

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 ...

Climate scientists are declaring victory after the Trump administration dissolved a working group of five well-known climate contrarians that authored a recent federal report questioning the severity ...

OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. The 1633 trial of Galileo over his backing of ...