Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing atoms. When plasma particles escape the core of the ...

A new study published in Conservation Biology shows that geotagged social media photos can significantly improve biodiversity datasets, especially in regions underrepresented in global monitoring ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now part of our everyday life. It is perceived as "intelligence" and yet relies fundamentally ...

Have you ever wondered about the world around you? Like, why the sky is blue, or why people act the way they do? There are two big ways we try to understand these things: through physical science and ...

Have you ever wondered how the aroma of brewing coffee can fill your kitchen or why your fingers become wrinkly after a long bath? The answer to both of these everyday mysteries lies in two basic ...

Hurricane Erin weakened into a Category 2 storm over Monday evening, the latest shift in what has been a remarkably fast-changing storm. The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

A growing recognition of the excesses of the cultural left has created an opening in contemporary intellectual life. This moment requires a new research agenda, a post-progressive movement in the ...

Abstract: Our article compared models for social learning and opinion diffusion in the context of economics and social science with those used in signal processing over networks of sensors, explaining ...

Sometimes science doesn’t need beakers, fancy equipment, or chemicals; sometimes, all it takes is a little water and your favorite candy. This week, we’re using Skittles and M&Ms to explore how ...

On Sunday (April 27), Altman acknowledged that there were issues with the updates. "The last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some ...