Precise measurements, not just imagination, drive scientific breakthroughs. From Galileo's telescope revealing Jupiter's moons to LIGO detecting gravitational waves, unblinking instruments ...

Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatments for a variety of illnesses, a growing ...

From vegetation scans to 360-degree smoke detectors, new tools are trying to shine a light on the most dangerously dark areas ...

Five volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupted simultaneously, spewing a mind-boggling amount of lava onto the surface and giving us clues to what may lie underneath ...

Today's most powerful computers hit a wall when tackling certain problems, from designing new drugs to cracking encryption ...

UC Santa Cruz team achieves synthesis of beneficial neurochemical in just two steps, promising to break a bottleneck in drug ...

Whether AI models will become super-intelligent or not, the risks posed by them are already here, and not in the future, like Amodei and other CEOs have been saying ...

AI doomerism has always been a form of self-flattery. It attributes to human beings god-like powers to create new forms of life, and casts Silicon Valley oligarchs as titans with the power to shape ...

Britain's police forces will be getting a high-tech upgrade as Orwellian artificial intelligence ( AI) tools are rolled out ...

One of the UK's most powerful supercomputers is being given a £36m upgrade by the government as part of further investment in ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Kids and adults will have the chance to explore, experiment and discover a love for science and math during Missouri Western's annual Super Science Saturday in February. The event, ...

When scientists and regulators need clear answers to health risks—such as whether Tylenol causes autism (it doesn’t)—they typically turn to systematic reviews, widely regarded as medicine’s gold ...