Marine scientists navigate autonomous glider robots across the Atlantic Ocean and along the West Antarctic Peninsula, collecting data to help predict storm intensity. When farmers’ fields are ...

Newswise — RICHLAND, Wash.—Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots for designing and implementing experiments. However, setting ...

Scientists and the public agreed that science takes curiosity and detective work. They differed on how much it depends on creativity, judgment and established methods.

If artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize the way science is done, as many of the frontier AI laboratories hope, it needs to master board games first. That’s the lesson from a recent study ...

New York University computer scientists and students have developed a pair of web-hosted AI systems designed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the research process—by spotting “hallucinations ...

How do you make a scientist more relatable? They can often seem like brilliant but distant figures who understand the world in ways most of us can’t. But research suggests that helping students relate ...

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.