Californian John Martinis won a Nobel Prize for physics work he did decades ago. Today, he's on a quest to create the fastest quantum computers in existence.

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system works. In separate projects, they identified the importance of T cells.

A newly published study by Cornell researchers shows that university professors have responded to concerns about learning outcomes in STEM classes by greatly increasing the number of active-learning ...

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. The pace of progress has some researchers convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) could compete with science’s greatest minds in ...

Some researchers think artificial intelligence could produce Nobel-worthy research, but others question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable ...

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has repeatedly shifted his predictions for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), while critics argue that current large language models are inherently limited and ...

Born in 1965 to Palestinian refugee parents in Amman, Jordan, Omar Yaghi has journeyed from modest beginnings above his father’s butcher shop to the heights of global science. His father raised cattle ...

Most plastic forks, bottles, and shopping bags ever made still exist somewhere. Most are buried in a landfill or drifting in the oceans. Petrochemical plastics have been perhaps humanity’s greatest ...

PagePeek introduces an AI-driven framework for paper evaluation and paper quality assessment, advancing transparency, reproducibility, and ...

Today in History for Oct. 6: In 1520, German reformer Martin Luther published his Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of ...