Chinese scientists have for the first time directly observed the Migdal effect in neutron-nucleus collisions in an experiment ...

The outlook has brightened for federal science budgets, but political appointees are likely to have a big say in how that ...

This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and ...

Scientists at China’s EAST tokamak have achieved plasma densities beyond long-standing limits using plasma-wall ...

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Nick Edwards, PhD, CEO of Potato, has a “burning desire” to speed up scientific discovery. In an interview with GEN, he explained how Potato’s AI “scientist,” named Tater, recently replicated a main ...

A substance poisonous to humans — hydrogen cyanide — may have helped create the seeds of life on Earth. At cold temperatures, ...

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

KAIST scientists have created a fast-acting, stable powder hemostat that stops bleeding in one second and could significantly ...

The CEO of AAAS is cautiously optimistic about federal funding for science, even as uncertainty makes research challenging.