Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It.

Beijing is pouring vast resources into fusion research, while the U.S. wants private industry to lead the way. The winner ...
Interesting Engineering

‘Invisible’ processes of quantum standard volt visualized in a first with ultracold atoms

By building an atomic equivalent of the critical Josephson junction, scientists can now study how energy is lost and excitations form.

Atomic Josephson contacts: How Bose-Einstein condensates replicate Shapiro steps

The microscopic processes taking place in superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU ...

Enhancing machine-learning interatomic potentials for advanced materials modeling

Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, ...
Nature

I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket

Carsten Lund Pedersen is an associate professor of digital transformation and artificial intelligence at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert ...
AOL

Add One Strange Ingredient To Your Garden In Fall For Bigger Blooms In Spring

It's easy to assume that spring is when the real work in the garden begins, but the truth is that healthy soil — and bigger, brighter blooms — start with the right regimen in the fall. While most ...
The New York Times

Turns Out Air Pollution Was Good for Something

Dr. Hausfather is the climate research lead at Stripe and a research scientist with Berkeley Earth. Dr. Keith is a professor and the founding director of the Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at ...
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...
IGN

How to Make Human

Much like any mad scientist, we want to know how to make humans in Infinite Craft and hopefully, we’ll have better results than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Making humans in Infinite Craft can unlock ...
The Economist

China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

While American tech giants are spending megabucks to learn the secrets of their rivals’ proprietary artificial-intelligence (AI) models, in China a different battle is under way. It is what Andrew Ng, ...
Science Daily

Scientists may have finally found the Universe’s missing sulfur

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why so little sulfur appears in space, even though it is one of the most common elements in the universe and vital to life. A new study suggests that the ...
Refinery29

The Ordinary’s Powder-to-Cream Spot Treatment Is Unique — & Actually Works

All linked products are independently selected by our editors. If you purchase any of these products, we may earn a commission. The premise is simple: tap the product onto your fingertip, apply it ...