Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised scientists with their unexpected shape. Rather than resembling a ball, ...

New bibliometric tool combs through scientific literature, patents, and grants to forecast future impact, but experts disagree about its usefulness ...

Use the vitals package with ellmer to evaluate and compare the accuracy of LLMs, including writing evals to test local models.

The story so far: In 1999, California-based Nvidia Corp. marketed a chip called GeForce 256 as “the world’s first GPU”. Its purpose was to make videogames run better and look better. In the 2.5 ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Forget about basic stand-on devices that measure weight and basic body composition stats; this advanced foot-to-hand smart scale can do that and so much more.

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

To fill the talent gap, CS majors could be taught to design hardware, and the EE curriculum could be adapted or even shortened.

Quantum key distribution promises ultra-secure communication by using the strange rules of quantum physics to detect eavesdroppers instantly. But even the most secure quantum link can falter if the ...