Most Americans say they trust scientists to act in the public’s best interests, though confidence is lower than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, but sharply diverge on how the U.S ...

Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

For dinner tonight, you are being treated to the tasting menu of a lifetime. The periodic table of elements. Which elements ...

Machine learning is revolutionizing fundamental science by tackling long-standing mathematical challenges. A key example is ...

Scientists are trying to tame the chaos of modern artificial intelligence by doing something very old fashioned: drawing a ...

Researchers have proposed a unifying mathematical framework that helps explain why many successful multimodal AI systems work ...

"We have built a gear train in which a light-driven gear sets the entire chain in motion. The gears can also convert rotation into linear motion, perform periodic movements and control microscopic ...

Recent fossil finds could mean that "Lucy" wasn't our direct ancestor, some scientists say. Others strongly disagree. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Cue the wedding bells … Young Thug and Mariah the Scientist are engaged. The rapper popped the question to Mariah the Scientist while onstage at his Hometown Hero benefit concert in Atlanta on Tuesday ...

Barely a third of social scientists believe their university would promote them based on the strength of their research impact, a global poll of researchers has found. Asked whether their institution ...