Abstract: Molybdenum (Mo) is a promising interconnect material due to its favorable electrical properties and barrierless process. However, grain boundary scattering significantly increases ...

Anthropic sues the Pentagon while OpenAI signs a deal. What two CEOs' contrasting choices reveal about AI leadership, market value and ethical risk.

Strategically and politically, the war launched by Trump and Netanyahu against Iran makes no sense. Except perhaps as a means of weakening China in the medium term by attacking its energy supply chain ...

Trump, during his first press conference since the start of the strikes, contended he “forced” Israel’s metaphorical “hand" ...

We have performed molecular dynamics simulations using a shell model potential developed by fitting first-principles results to describe the behavior of the relaxor ...

First-principles calculations are computational techniques that determine the properties of materials or molecular systems directly from fundamental physical laws, typically quantum mechanics, without ...

According to Sawyer Merritt, at Up.Summit 2025, Tesla's Optimus Robot exemplifies the 'first principles' methodology by deconstructing problems to their fundamental elements and rebuilding solutions ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...