One researcher tells Scientific American that the change would reduce transparency and risk politicizing the grant review process
A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow the Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full hour
The elegant curl of rose petals may be distinct among flowers—and math can explain why
Evidence for the possible super-Earth has been lurking for years in NASA data. Pavel Rabtsevich found it—with a little help from AI
The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places to live
OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether the algorithms that protect our texts and bank log-ins are next
Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their models
For the first time, scientists managed to turn cloned male mouse embryos into females, giving life to healthy and fertile individuals
The wreck was found with relatively intact cargo on the seabed off the coast of Türkiye and is believed to be between 4,400 and 4,700 years old
The work could help improve quantum computers’ accuracy in complex calculations
You don’t need to sacrifice spookiness to keep real owls, bats and snakes safe
Rumors that OpenAI’s “Navier-Stokes” solution stole the work of two mathematicians may have been overblown
NASA’s PUNCH mission is showing a rarely seen aspect of our nearest star—the churning chaos of the solar corona
The Category 2 storm spawned tornadoes, flooding and extreme rain when it made landfall
As far-fetched as it may seem, quirks of orbital mechanics could allow hundreds of planets to be packed around a star