The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

Karin Verspoor receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Medical Research Future Fund, the National Health and Medical Research Council, and Elsevier BV. She is affiliated with ...

The researchers discovered that models that aced science quizzes struggled with real laboratory situations requiring quick adaptation.

As fundamental particles, neutrinos are tiny and near massless, traveling near the speed of light. They hold the key to unraveling crucial physics mysteries like the origins of matter, the Earth's ...

Leonardo da Vinci becomes more of a scientist with age and performs experiments to test theories. Muslim scientists in the Middle East had been testing their theories with experiments for a long time.