When waves are moving across ice-covered seas, they can cause sheets of ice to bend and ultimately break. Understanding the ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

Graphene has long been hailed as a "wonder material." It is incredibly strong, highly conductive and almost impossibly thin—just one atom thick. These properties make it a promising candidate for next ...

TSUKUBA, Japan, Jan 8, 2026 - (ACN Newswire) - Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are ...

There have been a number of high-profile cases where scientific papers have had to be retracted because they were filled with AI-generated slop—the most recent coming just two weeks ago. These ...

Scientists developed a high-performance hydrogen-production catalyst using lignin, a common waste product from paper and biorefinery processes. The nickel–iron oxide nanoparticles embedded in carbon ...

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, ...

Summarizing complex scientific findings for a non-expert audience is one of the most important things a science journalist does from day to day. Generating summaries of complex writing has also been ...

It’s one of the most longstanding questions in biology: how did life first arise? Research on the topic abounds, but there’s no one accepted answer. And according to one new paper, the chances that ...

Reengineered, the powdery stuff could become a range of eco-friendly objects. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At first glance, ...

The large language model–based chatbot ChatGPT fails to highlight the validity concerns with scientific papers that have been retracted or have been the subject of other editorial notices, according ...

In a major editorial decision, the journal Science has officially retracted a famous and fiercely debated 2011 paper that proposed the existence of an “arsenic-based” life-form. The original study ...