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Precision timekeeping is vital for the functioning of our everyday lives.
A century ago, physicists laid the foundations of quantum mechanics. One of them, Louis de Broglie, disavowed a famous theory. Why?
We’ve only just scratched the surface of what AI can achieve in science.
There has been a huge public debate about whether there is sufficient direct evidence of social media harm. But there are many mechanisms that make the link clear.
On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator.
Ramses, a European space mission to study the asteroid Apophis, has been approved for perparatory work.
The original 1984 film’s vision of rogue AI turning on humanity remains hugely influential.
AI promises to accelerate scientific discovery, but if scientists aren’t careful public trust may be left behind.
Cosmology could be transformed by a new wave of telescopes – both on the ground and in space.
Don’t be fooled by the image of a mad scientist isolated in his basement laboratory. Science is a collaborative endeavor, and international teams have contributed to a huge rise in scientific output.
AI will feature in future Nobel prizes as scientists exploit the power of this technology for research.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, the 2024 Physics Nobel laureates, developed computer systems that can memorise and learn from patterns in data.
Argentina and Chile will see the ‘ring’, but other regions will see a partial eclipse.
Only 5 women have ever won a Nobel Prize in physics. The field as a whole has issues with gender diversity, but as a woman physicist explains, success is possible for women in the field.
Modern North American porcupines are at least twice the size of their southern cousins and have stronger jaws. But how long have they looked that way?
The Hubble tension has been described as a “crisis” for cosmology. Can it be resolved?
Researchers asked engineering students to tell stories about challenges they had faced. Telling the stories, students said, made them more likely to stay in their major.
The Jurassic pterosaur’s size was estimated from only its finger bone.
The islands’ rocks record the first stage of a huge freeze that would eventually cover the Earth in ice.
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