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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Gems — the Global Emerging Markets Risk Database — is a collaboration between 29 multilateral and national development ...
Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming ...
On Oct. 2, the Humanities Studio hosted Nina Sun Eidsheim to speak on her latest book and research regarding sound and the ...
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...