It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

Lunar mantle rocks may be waiting at NASA’s Artemis IV south pole landing sites — ancient impact simulations and GRAIL ...

Seattle’s young center entered her second WNBA season as the future of the franchise. But she has always wanted her life to be more than basketball.

Murder suspect brain scans published Monday in Aggression and Violent Behavior reveal that killers who planned their crimes ...

Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials will actually ...

Worth about fifty billion dollars, he founded Citadel, one of the biggest hedge funds in the world, and Citadel Securities, a ...

The Washington Post revisited a 1976 feature predicting life in 2026, revealing how accurately it foresaw smartphones, solar energy, gene editing, and other technological breakthroughs.

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin material. When cooled, the material forms tiny magnetic vortices before ...