Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.

The two were on the same path for two decades. Then, after one succeeded in science and one failed, their stories clashed ...

Eight University of Chicago scholars have earned Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize early-career scholars’ potential to make substantial contributions to their fields.

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

OpenStar Technologies, a New Zealand-based fusion energy startup, has trapped plasma inside a levitated superconducting magnet, a feat that no company or laboratory had previously achieved with ...

An MIT research team has observed a previously unseen form of magnetism, one that sits outside the familiar categories of ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. The discovery, termed p-wave magnetism, ...

The 26 students from the U.S have been selected as Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2026. They will begin their graduate studies at the University of Cambridge next fall.

For many children, gazing at the night sky is just a fleeting wonder.But for Hillary Diane Andales and Florence Pauline Basubas, it was the beginning ...

At UMass Lowell’s first International Day of Women and Girls in STEM event, Jan had the opportunity to pay that support forward. Standing beside her research poster at Alumni Hall, Jan explained to ...

Oak Ridge is becoming a nuclear energy hub with Orano USA building a uranium enrichment plant and Oklo developing a nuclear fuel recycling facility, creating jobs and boosting US energy independence.

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-level transition in the hydrogen atom, Lothar ...