Once upon a time, much of what we call “science” was performed by people called “natural philosophers,” delving into mysteries of nature, physics, chemistry, and more. Physicist and author Carlo ...

The modern world owes a lot to the Enlightenment, the 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the power of reason. But the Enlightenment also created a myth: that we can get to know the ...

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered an unexpected form of the Hall effect, overturning the long-held assumption that this electrical response only appears when a magnetic field ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly ...

An engagement ring is missing. But no worries. The kids at the Cool Science Club are on the case. That’s right, more than 50 kids in grades Pre-K to rising ninth graders spent the week of Aug. 24 not ...

Physical AI and embodied AI bring large-scale machine learning to robotics — agents that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. This is a curated, engineering-oriented map of Physical AI ...

"Transformers are starting to show their age. Many of the recent advances in LLMs, such as the development of so-called reasoning models and their ability to handle large amounts of input at once, are ...

Altermagnetism is a new, third type of magnetism of great interest for spin-transport applications like computer memory. If properly harnessed, it could combine the benefits of the two existing types ...

This event was recorded on August 5th, 2026 at Flug Forum, produced by Aspen Center for Physics, in partnership with Aspen Public Radio. Quantum mechanics is one of the fundamental theories of our ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — High-energy physics experiments produce enough data in one second to keep a team of scientists busy for years. A University of Alabama-led research team will build an artificial ...