Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE announced it was able to increase the power conversion efficiency of its record-breaking III-V germanium solar module from 34.2% to 34.4%.

On the way to a conference dinner in Bengaluru in 2014, Neena Gupta, then a postdoctoral student, was discussing a fundamental problem in algebraic geometry with a field expert, another student, and ...

EUREKA, Mo. — One man was killed by Eureka police after firing shots at officers Thursday night at a home in the Windswept Farms subdivision. Shortly before 8 p.m., officers responded to the 1500 ...

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A series of offshore earthquakes shook near California's North Coast early Wednesday morning. The quakes included a magnitude 5.1 earthquake about 40 miles west of Petrolia, which struck at 5:45 a.m., ...

EUREKA, Calif. (KGO) -- Two earthquakes with preliminary magnitudes of over 5.0 struck off the Northern California coast Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. According to the USGS, a ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Investors in private-credit funds keep heading for the exits, partly driven by worries that the underlying assets might be overvalued. While private-equity funds haven’t undergone a similar flight, ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

GPT-5.4's 83% score suggests AI rivals expert professionals. Tests span nine industries and 44 real-world occupations. New capabilities boost coding, tools, and computer control. It seems like only ...