How do professional mariners learn to handle huge, oceangoing ships? For some, the educational voyage goes through a small ...

New measurements on Bose-Einstein condensate could help us better understand how objects transition from being quantum and ordered to classical and chaotic ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called ...

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

New research reveals how ancient Greeks picked their names, showing social pressure played a major role in naming traditions.

The weather world is awash in a sea of raw data for both the past and present, so it makes sense that AI would earn a place in the forecaster’s quiver.

For a quarter century, cosmology has leaned on one framework to explain how the universe expands. Known as the ΛCDM model, it ...

Train delays can cascade into stalled commutes, economic losses, and vacation snags. Scheduling trains is computationally ...

dots.ocr is a powerful, multilingual document parser that unifies layout detection and content recognition within a single vision-language model while maintaining good reading order. Despite its ...

The earliest climate models made specific forecasts about global warming decades before those forecasts could be proved or ...

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Caltech scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)–based method that dramatically speeds up calculations of ...