IBM released its plans for building a system that should push quantum computing into entirely new territory: a system that can both perform useful calculations while catching and fixing errors.
A study found that ocean acidification—the process in which the world’s oceans absorb excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, becoming more acidic—crossed a “planetary boundary” five years ago.
China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling Program, the special-built Meng Xiang ("Dream") drill ship is gearing up for a multi-year effort to pierce the Earth's crust.
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together - but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark matter does not reflect, absorb, or emit light, it can still be indirectly observed by telescopes.
Physicists from the Muon g-2 experiment have released their third measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly.
Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster - the 20-million-light-year-wide cloud around the galaxy cluster PLCK G287.0+32.9.
In new research, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope searched for signs of interactions between the magnetic environment and the surfaces of Uranus and its four largest moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.
Brain-inspired computers could boost AI efficiency—a tantalizing prospect as the industry's energy bills mount.
A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets.
Understanding how the brain processes moral responsibility is important because of the implications it can have for ethics, justice, and the psychology of human behavior.
Rising “atmospheric thirst” – also known as atmospheric evaporative demand (AED) – is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the last four decades (1981-2022).
Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with a significant atmosphere, and one that has long captivated planetary scientists.
Astronomers in Hawaii detected three different stars being devoured by supermassive black holes that released more energy than 100 supernovas. These are the largest explosions since the Big Bang.
On April 2, 2025, NASA said that new data from the Webb space telescope and ground-based telescopes suggested a 3.8% chance of a moon strike.
Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down?
