A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry ...

The UK will ban children under 16 from social media by early next year, replicating a policy that came into effect in Australia in 2025. The move is intended to put children’s well-being ahead of ...

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting eight to 14 total named storms. A typical year averages about 14 tropical ...

The Aalto Ice and Wave Tank is the only wide ice tank in the world capable of generating multidirectional wave fields alongside sea ice.Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University The Aalto Ice and Wave Tank in ...

In a biology laboratory in Tokyo, ten robots conduct experiments, using their two arms to handle liquids, grow cells on plates and operate scientific instruments, among other basic tasks. The Robotics ...

Astronauts Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu are preparing for a 2nd spacewalk aboard the Tiangong space station. They've also been conducting and maintaining combustion experiments. Credit: ...

When you face a challenge, how do you know how much effort to put into solving it? How do you determine whether you’re preparing or procrastinating? When I was 21, I got sick with a complicated and ...

Most of the hundreds of “LabGerm” videos posted and reposted to social media in recent weeks start out the same way: A pair of gloved hands appears against a white backdrop as an AI-generated voice ...

How would soldiers from places like Florida, Texas and Georgia fight and persevere in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees? How would soldiers from places like Florida, Texas and Georgia fight and ...

Generative AI has sprinted from novelty to boardroom priority in record time. But despite the widespread adoption of this technology, not every company is realizing bottom-line improvement ...

Back said the safest approach is to build optional upgrades that would allow Bitcoin to migrate to quantum-resistant cryptography once it's needed. Blockstream CEO Adam Back, an early pioneer of the ...