Earth looks smooth from space, but its gravity varies from place to place. Depending on where you stand, you weigh a tiny bit more or a tiny bit less, and NASA's gravity maps have spent time tracking ...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan finds that’s harder to pin down than you might think ...

The elusive brainstem is a small, yet critical part of our brain: the slightest damage to it could prove fatal. But how it ...

Open details for Brown brings students together in creative, unexpected ways. Following the senseless act of violence on our campus on December 13, 2025, the Brown community began the difficult work ...

New research from the University of Cambridge offers an easy and readily available solution using AI and satellite data. In a ...

Generating an image of a person on a computer using text prompts is easy. Generating one with two people is similarly simple.

Brain inspired AI model employs cognitive maps and stochastic calculations for energy efficient problem solving.

On an incredibly detailed new map, you can look through the world’s 120,000-plus power plants, from solar and wind farms to ...

What if the Higgs boson found in 2012 is not alone but is the only sibling we have encountered so far? Scientists at CERN discovered the particle that year, and it was a major discovery because it ...

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining ...