The chipmaker's funding pledge targets national research programs in quantum computing and superintelligence as AI companies deepen ties to publicly funded scie

The prize recognizes the detection of high-energy neutrinos from space, work that opened a new window on the universe; commentators also debate how credit is ap

The award honors research on asymmetric catalysis and chiral amplification, with implications for understanding the origins of life's handedness.

Three computer scientists rushed out a milestone result amid rumors that an AI system had proven one of theoretical computer science's biggest open problems.

The assessment calls for triggering positive tipping points in food and finance, following the path already under way in energy, to reverse nature loss.

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific are forecast to hit record levels, raising fears of an ecological shift on the reef and persistent changes else

The release adds hundreds of AI-generated mathematical results to the literature, prompting scrutiny of which advances are genuinely new.

Observations of extreme debris disks offer a glimpse of the violent impacts thought to have shaped our solar system, including the Moon-forming collision.

Eighteen hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including a skull fragment dated to about 2 million years ago, reshape the timeline of early human evolution.

The federal funding push adds to a wave of government investment aimed at accelerating practical quantum computing capabilities.

The awards fund work on microelectronics and quantum development as part of a broader federal push to accelerate scientific capability.

The episode raises fresh questions about attribution and the use of unpublished scientific work in AI systems.

Nearly 10 minutes of soft X-ray activity after a short gamma-ray burst expose a merger phase earlier missions may have missed.

The designed molecule activates cancer cells' own self-destruct machinery rather than simply blocking tumor growth, and eliminated aggressive human tumors in mi

A previously unknown protist found while testing a DNA sequencing technique uses a genetic code that deviates from a long-standing biological rule.

Strong evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet orbiting its star every 24 hours could inform models of how such worlds form and survive.

The drug appears to block a protein involved in both pain signaling and cartilage destruction, suggesting a potential disease-modifying treatment.

The interview and a related campus talk highlight ongoing efforts to bring fusion power closer to commercial viability, including a Tennessee project.