More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

The hypothetical questions of “What’s a movie sequel that’s better than the original?” or “Name a sequel that was actually ...

A stone being used in the foundation of an old barn in the Czech Republic turned out to be a Bronze Age spearhead mold. A seemingly dull rectangular stone, used as part of a foundation for an old barn ...

Physicists working with molybdenum-84, a nucleus containing exactly 42 protons and 42 neutrons, have found that this seemingly balanced atom defies one of nuclear physics’ longest-standing ...

Trevor Smith launched one of the first few space startups in Metro Atlanta in 2018 ...

Top Prize Editor’s Choice by Jesse Plotkin, Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research Every year, the College of Natural Sciences invites faculty, staff and ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...

About 65 years since its reactor became active, staff at Washington State University's Nuclear Science Center say they're ...

And then there’s the color red, which, for structural reasons, is generally difficult to achieve in chemistry. For practical ...

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

In a new study ( Nature Physics, "Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons" ), researchers developed the most streamlined system yet for generating orbital angular momentum in electrons. Their ...