Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they ...

Error theory can mean vastly different things depending on the context - what does it mean in the context of science and AI?

After years of confusion, a new study confirms the proton is tinier than once thought. That enables a test of the standard model of particle physics.

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Kentucky has discovered that Antarctica's only native insect is already consuming microplastics, despite living in one of ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

A giant virus encodes part of the protein-making toolkit of cells that gives it greater control over its amoeba host, raising questions about how it evolved and how such beings relate to living organi ...