At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

For as long as people have looked for answers in the night sky, the idea of stepping into a machine and arriving in an ...

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain calculations exponentially faster than a classic computer could, but ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of measurement itself. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three ...

A new fault-tolerant architecture using 448 atomic qubits suppresses errors past the critical point needed for scaling.