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OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of ...

Forget what you thought you knew about the universe.

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Just as in-flight turbulence—irregular disruptions in the airflow—results in a bumpy plane ride, plasma turbulence transports ...

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This year, quantum science and computing came up a lot. There have been broad claims that quantum science and engineering ...

Seventeen-year-old Grace Lee from Chula Vista is gaining national attention as a finalist in the global Breakthrough Junior Challenge, an annual competition that invites students to create original ...

A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...