From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way to alter complex drug molecules using light rather than ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

Students from primary through intermediate schools presented experiments, posters and engineering designs.

With improved model capabilities, Anthropic Opus 4.6 is an example, the same wave is now hitting science itself. If code is no longer the bottleneck—if generating, testing, and iterating on ...

Nearly 300 students showed off their scientific skills during the recent 74th annual Reading-Berks Science and Engineering ...

Before smartphones, tablets, and digital labs, science class for Baby Boomers meant getting hands-on with experiments that ...

Parents of young children will be aware of the need to encourage early reading and maths skills in their kids. They know it’s ...

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute (Picker ISI) has announced this year’s awards supporting interdisciplinary research, training, and student-centered scholarship at Colgate. The funded ...

Hollywood has never been known for its strict adherence to science. In most blockbusters the laws of physics are treated more like polite suggestions than hard rules. Need I mention “Armageddon”? I ...