It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing ...

Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now widely used for various purposes, ranging from filmmaking and aerial photography to industrial inspection, precision farming and ...

Lunar mantle rocks may be waiting at NASA’s Artemis IV south pole landing sites — ancient impact simulations and GRAIL ...

M ore than a decade ago, the economist Erik Brynjolfsson made a prediction: AI would change everything. Humans began using ...

The AI conversation is still too narrowly framed. Most debates assume intelligence is fundamentally computational, that ...

"We didn't have modulators," Toni Taylor, a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow and physicist, says matter-of-factly, ...

Murder suspect brain scans published Monday in Aggression and Violent Behavior reveal that killers who planned their crimes ...