18+ hour, 31+ min ago   (593+ words) Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the top-secret Los Alamos, N.M. lab that designed and built the atomic bomb, was one of the most complex, morally ambivalent Americans in history. Like many intellectuals in the 1930s, he rejected capitalism and searched for…...

20+ hour, 55+ min ago   (669+ words) Electron microscopes can reveal structures far smaller than anything visible with ordinary light. But researchers in Austria say conventional electron microscopes may be leaving valuable information on the table. In a standard system, electrons are mainly counted to build an…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (652+ words) ALBANY, N.Y. (Sept. 10, 2026) — Richard Stearns’ accomplishments and recognition in computer science were extraordinary, establishing him as a pioneer who helped introduce the concept of computational complexity. You may not have known that, however, if you were a student of his at…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1638+ words) Building a quantum computer is one thing. Showing that it is genuinely using quantum mechanics is another. A new experiment, just published in Nature Communications, takes a fresh approach to that question. Instead of relying on entanglement or the complex…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1186+ words) Four detection tools were run against 40 fully AI-written master’s papers in a peer-reviewed test published 29 June 2026. Three of them caught none. Turnitin scored every one of the 40 below its own reporting threshold. This post collects verified AI content detector accuracy…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (290+ words) Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (786+ words) AI detectors rely on statistical patterns like perplexity and burstiness, not on identifying an author directly. Accuracy varies widely, and false positives hit certain writers harder than others, so a single score should never stand as final proof. An AI…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (395+ words) Machines can observe behavior, but they do not understand intentions. Bosen Lian, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, wants to change that. Lian is principal investigator on a three-year, $440,000 National Science Foundation-funded project, “Collaborative Research: Intentional…...

5+ day, 27+ min ago   (1001+ words) Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Butler-Baker have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Whyte’s essay below and read Emanuel and…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (537+ words) image: The developing branching lung in an in vitro culture system. view more As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once “blank slate” cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver, or…...