Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

No divine sign, just science.

The Canadian actor stars as a science teacher turned astronaut in sci-fi film Project Hail Mary.

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

The federal government announced a new pilot program designed to get new kinds of ultralight vehicles and "eVTOLs" up and running around the country—even if they're not fully FAA-certified.

OpenAI added help for more than 70 different math and science concepts in algebra, physics and geometry.

A fierce debate is taking place about whether there really has been a revival in Christianity.

Project Hail Mary is a natural follow-up to The Martian. Both movies are based on sci-fi novels by Andy Weir, and both have bankable stars in the lead role (Matt Damon for The Martian, Ryan Gosling for Project Hail Mary) and accomplished directors at the helm…

The team from Atma Science Inc., the company behind social AI app Gizmo, will join Meta's Superintelligence Labs.

I spoke with Andy Weir about the adaptation of his hit novel, Project Hail Mary. Our conversation quickly turned into a mind-blowing lesson about science fiction.

When an Australian tech entrepreneur with no background in biology or medicine said ChatGPT helped save his dog from cancer, the story couldn't help but spread. It's the kind of validation Big Tech has long craved: proof that AI will revolutionize medicine an…

There's a reason Mystery Science Theater 3000 instructed fans to "keep circulating the tapes"

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

A speech-language pathologist shares a science-backed pause technique that can help prevent arguments, improve parenting, and reduce tension at work.

For years, English majors were mocked as useless. Now, AI is giving them some momentum in the job market, while computer science grads get disrupted.

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. We'll be taking a break next week and will back March 20t…

So you want to spend less time on your phone. How do you do that when it's designed to suck you in? Life Kit spoke to experts in behavioral science, psychology and technology for real-world advice.

A spokesperson for his family said the photograph was taken at a 2006 science symposium

Researchers say a deadly earthquake in Japan and 2023’s most powerful solar flare occurring back-to-back can’t be a coincidence—but other experts say it probably was.

The renowned physicist, mathematician, and philosopher would later reject the ideas presented in this very book.

Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world.

A software upgrade allowed CryoSat to monitor disturbances caused by a geomagnetic storm.

Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, plans to prove it.

NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it's delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, was originally going to attempt to land on the Moon but will now be a test flight instead. NA…

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about aste…

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the …

Play this crossword inspired by the April 2026 issue of Scientific American

Space warfare, space manufacturing and satellite data at Space Comm Expo

As science fiction technology quickly continues becoming real, the U.S. military now has plans for an experimental plane taken straight out of video games.

The UK government announces a £2billion investment in quantum computing.

Author Dan Simmons, best known for the epic sci-fi novel Hyperion and its sequels, has died at 77 following a stroke. Ars Technica's Eric Berger remembers Simmons, writing: Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s, pr…

In one study, participants who avoided late-night eating saw measurable improvements in everything from blood pressure to blood sugar — all without...

Tony Hoare at the LASER summer school, September 2007 (All photographs in this article are by the author) Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s major achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, which…

In science fiction, the use of gunpowder-based weapons is generally portrayed as something from a savage past, with technology having long since moved on to more civilized types of destructive …read more

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New research on what three very hot years can tell us about climate change.

It is worth using motorsports materials in a gaming mouse? As long as it's the same price as plastic.

As the legal war over how to regulate prediction markets rages on, financial institutions are embracing the industry anyway.

Science photographer Anand Varma figured it out.

Molecular biologists find tiny self-replicating molecules which may be key to life origins

ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

For decades, cumbersome CPAP machines have been the primary way to help people with sleep apnea. A range of new options has recently come into focus.

Anthropic's latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, …

Ultrahuman is expanding its health monitoring ecosystem with the launch of a new flagship smart ring and a "biointelligence AI" platform upgrade. The Ring Pro is Ultrahuman's third-generation smart ring, and promises up to 15 days of battery life before needi…

The discovery presents some of the oldest physical evidence that tooth-blackening trends in Vietnam have stayed consistent for a very, very long time.

Plus, 'A Quiet Place, Part III' sets its cast.

'The Last Orbit,' written by Ben Mezrich, will hit the screen directed by 'Fantastic Four' helmer Matt Shakman.

io9 spoke to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller and star Ryan Gosling about the cool Lego set.

With 'Disclosure Day' on the horizon, Spielberg wants everyone to know he's real believer when it comes to aliens.

Speakers at the Stand Up for Science rally in Washington, D.C., criticized the politicization of science and cuts to research that serves the public

Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher turned (reluctant) astronaut in the upcoming film adaptation of Project Hail Mary, a science fiction novel by author Andy Weir

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"Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants."

I met Willow at a loom on a farm one late-summer day. She was amused that I thought she looked like Mary Shelley, in whose world I’d been immersed for seven years while writing Traversal. Neither of us knew who the other was — Willow turned out to be the co-f…

The task of decoding the research underlying the nutritional claims of health supplements is rarely straightforward.

Die Verfilmung von Andy Weirs („Der Marsianer“) Roman verwandelt eine globale Katastrophe in eine intime Geschichte über eine unwahrscheinliche Freundschaft.

A practical guide to data structures and algorithms for software engineers and Computer Science students

How a blood-stained surgeon's frock evolved into a pristine symbol of modern science.

It is odd that science fiction did not predict the internet.

Startup pundits sold us a failed science of entrepreneurship. The Red Queen offers something better.

You see it all the time in science fiction: the heroes find old data, read it, and learn how to save the day. But how realistic is that? Forget aliens. Could you read a stack of punch cards or a 9-…

Snakes are key members of their ecosystems. Here’s what would happen if they suddenly vanished just like in the Oscar-nominated film Zootopia 2

Consciousness and animal communications experts weigh in on whether the mind-melding science in Hoppers could ever be possible

Experts say that to win a game like The Traitors, competitors should look for verbal clues over physical ones—and be friendly and open

This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion

A scalloped design by Snøhetta and Canadian studio Hariri Pontarini Architects has been selected for the Ontario Science Centre on the Toronto waterfront as part of a wider, years-long redevelopment of the area. Clients Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and the Min…

Last week, a few posts about a so-called virtual "embodied fly" tore through X, boosted by AI hype accounts and excited commenters who didn't seem to understand what it was they were excited about. The videos came from San Francisco-based Eon Systems, which s…

The science and the regulations to underpin these test “just aren’t there yet,” researchers say

The science of the zodiac is more intriguing than astrology would have you think

Physicist Paul Davies looks back at the past century of quantum mechanics—the most disruptive theory in the history of modern science.

Tony Hoare, the Turing Award-winning pioneer who created the Quicksort algorithm, developed Hoare logic, and advanced theories of concurrency and structured programming, has died at age 92. News of his passing was shared today in a blog post. The site I Pro…

Perhaps surprisingly, the answer isn't climate change.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite was supposed to map water across the surface of the Moon, but glaring design and testing errors killed it.

For a "large" language model, the diversity of outputs is pretty small.

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do.

An anomaly caused ESA's Proba-3 to ghost ground control, but now the spacecraft has finally made contact.

The Library of Congress has restored Gugusse et l'Automate, an 1897 short by Georges Melies that likely features the first robot ever shown on film. Long thought lost, the reel was discovered in a box of decaying nitrate films donated from a Michigan family c…

This essay explores the cost of multitasking through computer science concepts like context switching and advocates for the focus found in single-threaded moments.

Private and government stakeholders alike seem to believe that fusion energy is right around the corner.

Maybe it really is the dawning of the Chinese Century.

The tool is at the moment a proof-of-concept but could expand in the future to become a valuable tool for researchers and conservators.

Tickling may be evolutionarily ancient and recognized across cultures, but science has only scratched the surface of this topic

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Miller talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists

From cognitive overload to pretty privilege, the science behind The Traitors shows what really makes lies believable

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Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits feature By now you've probably heard AI datacenters called factories. It's an apt description: power goes in and tokens come out.…

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