What is artificial intelligence? It is a question that scientists have been wrestling with since the dawn of computing in the 1950s, when Alan Turing asked: “Can machines think?” Now that ...

Google's new artificial intelligence (AI) tool has cracked a problem that took scientists a decade to solve in just two days. José Penadés and his colleagues at Imperial College London spent 10 ...

Curriculum developers have made more of an effort in recent years to broaden their depictions of scientists, hoping to more accurately represent the scientific workforce. But does simply seeing a ...

Earlier this week, it announced it would close its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility branch in ...

Google's new artificial intelligence (AI) tool has cracked a problem that took scientists a decade to solve in just two days. José Penadés and his colleagues at Imperial College London spent 10 years ...

Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News. The Trump administration’s attacks on science and funding at the National Institutes of Health will set research and training ...

Star scientist Bill Nye and others in the field held a rally Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial. Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) ...

In a breakthrough that could redefine the future of computing, Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first carbon-based microchip capable of running artificial intelligence tasks using a ...

NOAA’s remit is wide, but one of its most critical roles is to observe the oceans. Multiple scientists told CNN the layoffs are taking expert eyes off the oceans at the worst possible time ...

NASA has abruptly closed its chief-scientist office, along with 2 other offices, firing 23 employees. The 10 March action leaves the agency without a way of feeding independent science advice to ...

Scientists recently determined why people always seem to have room for something sweet after eating a meal. It's because the "dessert stomach" is a real thing in a person's brain. "We wanted to ...

In a new study, scientists have taken a huge step forward in perfecting the method to synthesize lonsdaleite, which could lead to multiple scientific breakthroughs. Diamond is the hardest mineral ...