A geomagnetic storm has hit Earth – a space scientist explains what causes them
A geomagnetic storm lit up the night sky in parts of the US during the…
Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry recognized Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker for…
AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of…
Trump and Harris are sharply divided on science, but share common ground on US technology policy
For the first time in American history, quantum computing was mentioned by a candidate during…
Europe 2.0 – upgrading Europe’s internet search capacity
Megi Sharikadze, a research manager at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Germany, first became…
Nobel Prize in physics spotlights key breakthroughs in AI revolution − making machines that learn
If your jaw dropped as you watched the latest AI-generated video, your bank balance was…
Physics Nobel awarded to neural network pioneers who laid foundations for AI
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey…
NASA is launching a major mission to look for habitable spots on Jupiter’s moon Europa
On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon,…
We’ve worked out a way of understanding how microbial communities shape life on Earth
Microbial communities – vast ecosystems teeming with millions of different cells from different species –…
Many stable atoms have ‘magic numbers’ of protons and neutrons − 75 years ago, 2 physicists discovered their special properties
The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the…