Open the Youtube video The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a ...

The debate between Demis Hassabis and Yann LeCun began after the former denied the existence of general intelligence.

A new recycling method breaks mixed plastics into their building blocks and selectively rebuilds each one, turning multilayer packaging and complex waste into usable materials again. (Nanowerk ...

A survey of chemists’ attitudes to correcting errors in scientific publications shows most prefer to discuss them informally with colleagues and students or to write privately to editors. However, the ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne), and Omar M. Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley) for their ...

Winning scientists based in US, Australia and Japan Research created materials that can store large amount of gas in tiny volume Applications could include tackling climate change or lack of fresh ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Quantum chemistry calculations offer the best combination of efficiency and accuracy for predicting molecular properties. But the complexity of density functional theory and other methods makes them ...

Emily Sharp and Kunal Nabar collaborate on a puzzle that’s greater than the sum of its parts. By Caitlin Lovinger Jump to: Tricky Clues | Today’s Theme SUNDAY PUZZLE — Will Shortz, in his print ...

The prompt is at the heart of our engagement with large language models. And a good deal of attention has fallen on “prompt engineering”—a term now commonplace, representing the practice of creating ...