Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...

This semester, Nicholas Roberts and Ben Kosters teamed up and won the Atomic Games—a hack-a-thon competition hosted by Atomic Object featuring pairings of college students from across the state of ...

Publishers’ adoption of generative AI is reducing the friction between content and format, making it easier for the same story to appear as shorter summaries, audio, or video, often in real time. To ...

At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock ...

“Existential challenges abound.” So reads the executive summary of a new report from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism about journalism and technology trends in 2026. The Reuters Institute ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a theoretical study by RIKEN nuclear physicists published in The European Physical ...

Alex Partezana was a 22-year-old Marine in April 1953 when he received an unusual order: to observe nuclear weapons testing in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He still remembers the first blast ...

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does not apply to objects on the atomic scale whose physical properties are linked ...

A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveals that it’s spewing huge amounts of water — and astronomers can’t immediately explain why. The object, which is widely ...

DeepSeek unveils a new AI model focused on cost efficiency. The main innovation is a reduction in compute to run attention. The innovation is not revolutionary; it's evolutionary. Last week, DeepSeek ...

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