Physicists are getting closer to creating a long-sought ‘nuclear clock’. This device would keep time by measuring energy transitions in the nuclei of atoms and could become the most precise clock on ...

Large language models lack grounding in physical causality — a gap world models are designed to fill. Here's how three distinct architectural approaches (JEPA, Gaussian splats, and end-to-end ...

"Project Hail Mary," the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fiction. Although aliens, sun-draining ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

The New York Yankees began Thursday by delivering a dose of reality to their spring training roster. In a move […] ...

Texas is full of surprises, but discovering a cave that was literally ripped open by an earthquake ranks pretty high on the ...

This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a fundamental issue in physics: the hierarchy problem. There are several ongoing ...

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

Both the idiosyncratic rater effect and quantum physics prove that feedback is more reflective of the provider than the ...

The Uncertainty Engine is guiding research in fusion plasma physics. Could similar approaches benefit fission research as well?

Researchers showcased a new method for generating single photons in a diamond-based quantum system. This progress brings ...

In an era of high anxiety about artificial intelligence, one former Harvard physicist is using it to explore God.