Why a human expert must be in the loop for AI to boost chemistry
The AI Chemist is a column covering what artificial intelligence technologies can do now, what they could…
How do scientists know if climate change made a heat wave, extreme storm or wildfire worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did…
Curiosity Photographs a ‘Sea of Polygons’ on Mars
While NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover routinely finds interesting-looking rocks, including ones that looked like dragon scales just a…
IBM and Qedma Demonstrate Quantum Advantage, Modeling Physics Beyond Classical Capabilities Through Trusted Quantum Computation
Qedma’s quantum error reduction software, running on IBM quantum computers and tested against RIKEN and BlueQubit’s supercomputing resources,…
Neptune’s moon system is bizarre. James Webb Space Telescope data helps explain why
Neptune has a very strange moon system. The farthest planet from the Sun in our Solar System has…
Northern Lights Update: 9 States May See Aurora Tonight
Topline A few northern states may be able to see the northern lights tonight, according to the latest…
Radio Array Detects Polarized Light From a GRB
On March 10, 2026, the Fermi telescope gamma-ray burst team reported the detection of a long-duration gamma-ray burst…
Meet the gray wolf: How the apex predator, largest member of the dog family has evolved
The grey wolf is one of the world’s most fearsome apex predators, despite having a cute and cuddly…
Primordial Black Holes Can Trigger Type Ia Supernovae, and Astronomers Should be Able to Find Them
Theoretical cosmology and astrophysics can take us to strange places. Researchers in these disciplines can have long, detailed…
Lower losses, growing risks: the natural disaster review for the first half of 2026
In the Asia-Pacific region, losses remained significantly lower than in previous years. Total losses amounted to around US$…
Starburst Galaxy Centaurus A – NASA
In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy…
In 2020 scientists tracking a beaked whale logged a dive that seemed physically impossible: 3 hours and 42 minutes underwater on a single lungful of air, by far the longest dive ever recorded in any mammal on Earth
Here is a puzzle that still bothers the people who study it. Take a Cuvier’s beaked whale, work…