Jeff Bezos’ rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon’s gravity without straying too far from home.

Google’s digital ad sales continued to grow at a healthy clip during the holiday season, but that wasn’t enough to offset investors’ worries about whether its big bet on artificial intelligence will b ...

I asked AI to write a column in my style; it was a bad parody. Time to check how AI is doing. It's gotten much better, and shows surprising innovation.

The AI system, developed by Sabrina Guastavino and her team, successfully predicted an X8.7-class solar flare and provided an ...

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Replicating solar energy has become the goal of scientists around the world. With the threat of global warming and the durability of human life on this planet, achieving a replica ...

The EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) nuclear fusion reactor maintained a temperature of 158 million ...

Western governments and investors have spent much of the last week fretting about scientific breakthroughs from China.

AI-powered chatbot, DeepSeek’s app quickly topped Apple’s App Store charts, a notable achievement given U.S. restrictions on ...

Two things can be true: Holding back Chinese technology like DeepSeek and TikTok could be good for America, but it also hurts America. The developer of the chatbot that shocked U.S. incumbents had ...

Nearly every AI company saw its stock price soar in 2024. Many saw their market caps double, triple, or even quadruple in ...

Researchers are testing how well the open model can perform scientific tasks — in topics from mathematics to cognitive ...