An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing -- much like language translation and autofill for text on your smart phone -- can predict future fault friction and the ...

The future of US particle physics is in limbo as its central institution, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), continues to receive mixed grades and its management is up for grabs.

For the first time, scientists have built a fusion experiment using permanent magnets, a technique that could show a simple way to build future devices for less cost and allow researchers to test new ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University (MSU) and the French research organization, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, or CNRS, today signed an agreement to establish the ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara, California, is a facility dedicated to the development of quantum computers. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz pays a visit to the lab to talk the future of computing.

Physicists don’t think the truth should be “out there.” They want nature to come naturally, make sense, fit in or have a good reason not to. Unnaturalness is a problem. The poster child for unnatural ...

Dr. Erin MacDonald opens the conference as the first plenary speaker, sharing her journey from astronomy to science advising for various "Star Trek" shows, resulting in the producers creating an ...

Dave Van Wie has been selected to lead the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) as its next director. Van Wie, currently the Air and Missile Defense Sector Head at APL, will succeed Ralph ...