Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of ...

Superconductors sit at the heart of some of the most ambitious technologies on the horizon, from lossless power grids to ...

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a ...

Macrolactones—large ring lactones—are core components of many natural products and pharmaceutical agents. Traditional synthetic routes rely on seco acids activated with condensing reagents, often ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this podcast episode. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical ...

The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency's headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images) The Department ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close, and with the tropics quieting down for a winter slumber, the focus of forecasters turns to evaluating what worked and what did not during the ...

Two new AI models allow robots to perform complex, multistep tasks in a way that they couldn't previously. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while remaining stable until intentionally ignited. Its power comes from an ...

Mojan Javaheripi, Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, presents Phi-4-Reasoning and Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus—two 14B models designed to advance complex reasoning in small-scale ...

Rachael Wakefield-Rann receives research funding from various government and non-government organisations. She does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...