If artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize the way science is done, as many of the frontier AI laboratories hope, it needs to master board games first. That’s the lesson from a recent study ...

Reality feels solid. You can touch your desk, watch the sun rise, and trust that the laws of physics will keep your coffee from floating off the table. But dig a little deeper into modern science, and ...

A framework for translating the write-ups of experiments into a format that can be processed by computers has been developed by academics. The new tool could revolutionise the way scientific papers ...

Physics is filled with mysteries – and, believe it or not, gravity remains one of them. We rely on gravity to explain things large and small. But at a fundamental level, we still don’t fully ...

This article is part of “The Young American Scientists,” which includes stories of 28 extraordinary scientists poised to change the world, as well as a deep look at the past, present and future of ...

Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole. As the people who study ...