When the British entomologist John Sudd emigrated to Nigeria in the 1950s to conduct research at University College, Ibadan, he found plenty to study in his own abode. Like most dwellings in the ...

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge have publicly posted three preprints establishing ...

SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. The company was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded ...

As we venture into longer-term missions, the altered gravity may reorganize our brains in unexpected ways, research suggests.

The weak equivalence principle (WEP) is central to Einstein's general relativity. It posits that gravity must accelerate ...

The first appearance of a wormhole in Star Trek was a typically pioneering reference to what was then a niche research topic.

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NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s ...

It’s unclear what these objects actually are, but evidence for them has been detected by NASA’s Chandra space telescope for ...

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now ...

As artificial-intelligence tools become crucial collaborators in science, universities must teach students to challenge such systems and assess their ability to do so.