Huge OpenAI release contains “exciting” progress on a puzzle about prime numbers

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget recently proposed extensive changes to federal grant guidelines that would severely restrict how scientists communicate their research findings to the public and American taxpayers.

For six months in 2025, I spent my days working from a small office on the bottom floor at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies. My window was almost roof to ceiling, looked out onto the I...

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now r...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now r...

Let's talk about science and scicomm in a crazy world

Increasingly popular theories hold that experimental outcomes really do depend on the observer

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Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now r...

A search is underway for award-winning climate journalist Alec Luhn, a Wisconsin native, who is missing on a Norwegian glacier.

Exotic materials with bizarre electron behavior could pave the road to revolutionary technologies

The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

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Physicists cast doubt on measurements validating Microsoft’s first quantum chip, Majorana 1

A new map of cosmic expansion suggests that dark energy evolves over time, hinting that the universe doesn’t work the way we thought it did

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...