Your argument isn’t off to a great start when you undermine it in your title. Plait eventually admits that some UFOs remain unexplained and that they (or unidentified anomalous phenomena as the ...

Everyone who is familiar with 20th-century physics knows that the Newtonian classic "matter in motion" paradigm was overturned by the "twin pillars" of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It is ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American What do we really know about our universe?

A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from clogged grant systems to confusing public messages, are not just abstract complaints. In a 2016 survey of 270 scientists, researchers identified concrete ...

GPT-5 supports researchers across disciplines, a study found. The model doesn't rival human researchers, however. The findings don't indicate AGI is coming soon. OpenAI's recently released model, ...