Most of the universe is made of dark matter and dark energy, yet scientists still don’t know what either one is. New ultra-sensitive detectors are being built to spot incredibly rare particle ...

Using light to process data signals has advantages that are ideal for heavy workloads like AI due to greater bandwidth, less ...

At first glance, this looks like an easy win for the katana. But physics had other plans. The glass ball reacts in a way no one predicted. Frame by frame, the moment becomes even stranger. This is one ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

Artificial intelligence promised to transform drug discovery but struggled to deliver. A new focus on validation and ...

Physicists have watched a quantum fluid do something once thought almost impossible: stop moving. In experiments with ...

Pacific Fusion today reported results from a series of experiments conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' Z Pulsed Power Facility under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. In a ...

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Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps ...

An agentic AI tool for battery researchers harnesses data from previous battery designs to predict the cycle life of new ...

A 'learner,' 'interpreter' and 'oracle' work together with minimal experiments to draw parallels between historical data and new battery designs A ...

Some days invite big ideas, and others call for light curiosity. If you need a quick lift, this collection is made for ...