Every medication in your cabinet, every material in your phone's battery, and virtually every compound that makes modern life work started as a molecular guess, with scientists hypothesizing that a ...

Jeffrey Epstein called himself a “hermit” in two hours of 2019 interview footage just released. This seemed strange but ...

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Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology’s steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.

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The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

Researchers synthesized weird molecules that exist in three dimensions, breaking Bredt's rule and helping to develop future ...

Most people in the math education space agree that students need to be fluent with basic math facts. By the time kids are in ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

The cell walls of plants, the silk spun by spiders, the bark of rubber trees, the hardy outer shells of insect bodies; all these and a dozen other items found in nature are composed of a substance ...

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own. Credit...Agnes Jonas Supported by By Cade Metz ...