Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful ...

When a spacecraft enters a thick atmosphere at a high velocity, it rapidly compresses the gas in front of it. This creates temperatures high enough to ionize the gas molecules into a hot, dense plasma ...

The parabolic flight travels up and down several times on a trajectory resembling an arch, providing 22 seconds of zero ...

NVIDIA and the National Science Foundation are joining forces to support the development of several open AI models designed for use in science. In an announcement Thursday, NSF said it would ...

A legal case involving Meta revealed the company's secret experiments with training data. Meta used "ablation" to identify how specific data improved its Llama AI models. Some researchers say this ...

THE STANDARD MODEL of particle physics—completed in 1973—is the jewel in the crown of modern physics. It predicts the properties of elementary particles and forces with mind-boggling accuracy. Take ...

I n the rapidly evolving field of Data Science, technical skills such as programming, statistics, and machine learning are ...

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...