Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

Electrically heated elements turn from solids to liquids to provide flexibility to robotic building blocks. We use cookies to ...

In 1999, the Indian computer scientist and educational theorist Sugata Mitra created a small, if audacious, learning ...

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

In a study published February 5th in PLOS Biology, researchers played piano sonatas by J.S. Bach to sleeping newborns (some ...

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rosen and Moster debate if President Trump's foreign policy actions have increased the ...

Atomic layer processing improves optical performance in SiC photonic devices, crucial for developing efficient quantum systems and integrated photonic circuits.

Anthropic, one of OpenAI's chief rivals, also released a new coding model today, Claude Opus 4.6. Earlier this week, OpenAI ...

GBH's Morning Edition host Mark Herz sits down with MIT Professor David Karger about the evolution of AI and how its complicating online trust.

In A Nutshell MIT researchers built a portable ultrasound device weighing just over one pound that images more than 4 inches ...