New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, scientists have been using it to make accurate yet inexpensive calculations ...

A study in Nature Communications by Michele Ceriotti’s group at EPFL has introduced a new dataset and model that greatly improve the efficiency of machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) and ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Chinese researchers have discovered that interstitial carbon in iron-carbon alloys behaves in a superionic, liquid-like state ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article argues that the field now stands ...

This week’s cover of Science features a graphic symbolizing the Greek letter Ψ (psi), which represents the wave function, a ...

A new article examines the history of computing to help outline the direction of quantum research. It reports that quantum ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...