Connecticut has long been on the forefront of science and innovation, but a new children’s book explores the life of a ...

For more than a century, quantum mechanics and Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity have each passed countless tests, but physicists have struggled to reconcile the two. Now, scientists in ...

In the T2K experiment, Vietnamese researchers, led by Associate Professor Nguyen Thi Hong Van of the Institute of Physics and Dr. Cao Van Son of the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science ...

A Janelia postdoc’s months-long microscope-integration problem evolved into a new standard designed to bring AI more directly into the physical world. Developed from a collaboration between Anthropic ...

Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has been pushed even further. For the first time, researchers have observed ...

In 2003, Kary Mullis took The Scientist readers behind the scenes of the night in 1983 when he came up with the idea for PCR. He included a photo of his lab notebook that depicts his very first ...

On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop,” ...

Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialised knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must combine deep analysis with broad reasoning ...