AI excels at correlations but lacks physical intuition, creating gaps in real-world reasoning and reliability.

LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prizes, honoring scientists whose discoveries are significantly ...

In an era when cyberattacks evolve at machine speed, this convergence delivers far more than incremental improvements.

In a significant milestone, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic I (DESI) has completed its 3D map of the Universe—the highest resolution of any such map yet achieved—on sch ...

A 400-year-old mathematical puzzle concerning the most efficient way to pack spheres in eight dimensions has been solved by Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska. Her elegant 23-page proof, ...

A material built to tell left-handed light from right-handed light has long had a frustrating weakness. It mostly ignored visible light.

Asteroid Juno’s dust shows unusual heat behavior that could reshape what scientists know about heat flow in deep space ...

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When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

In a major breakthrough, scientists have experimentally confirmed a universal growth law in two dimensions using a quantum ...