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

Intense, brief flashes of radio light called fast radio bursts (FRBs) travel across billions of light-years to reach Earth, ...

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

Astronauts who undergo long-duration spaceflight aboard the International Space Station often return with health problems ...

A cultural anthropologist on how the show’s “infinite diversity in infinite combinations” conception helped shape NASA’s ...

A new analysis of more than 1,700 supernovae is questioning whether the universe is really accelerating at all. After accounting for the ages of the stars that produce these explosions, researchers ...

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

How agents acquire abstract concepts from sparse, diverse examples—often without explicit supervision—remains a central ...

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 ...

AI agents that can model the human process of research will accelerate discoveries in science. Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist ...

A government-directed approach to spectrum assignment will struggle to match the efficiency of the market to optimize transactions and use of resources for economic productivity. Aligning spectrum use ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. I’ll just say it: What the hell is going on with AI ...