Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

For years, the artificial intelligence industry has followed a simple, brutal rule: bigger is better. We trained models on massive datasets, increased the number of parameters, and threw immense ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

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Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. The cloak can shield objects of any shape from ...

Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...

French ministers report Grok's sex-related content on the X platform to prosecutors French ministers have reported to prosecutors sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk's xAI artificial ...

The group created a physical AI-based vehicle state estimation system designed to track how electric vehicles behave in real ...

In 1914, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan published a short paper detailing several unusual formulas for calculating ...

Jan. 1, 2026 Scientists studying Alzheimer’s in African Americans have uncovered a striking genetic clue that may cut across racial lines. In brain tissue from more than 200 donors, the gene ADAMTS2 ...