For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new measurement technique ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...

Researchers have discovered unexpected 1D-like spin behavior in a triangular molecular lattice, challenging the conventional ...

The 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes contest is now open for entries. Go here to submit your entry today. The final deadline for entries will be 6 p.m. Feb. 14, 2025. An early bird discounted ...

Richard Martin Wilstätter was born in Karlsruhe on August 13, 1872. His father was a cloth merchant. In From My Life ...

This is about tennis professional earnings. As you may have heard, the top prizes at the Australian Open are a whopping $3.5 million. That’s a huge payday for two weeks of tennis. But the big ...

Have you ever had the chance to hear a Nobel Prize winner speak? Hutchinson High School student Brockton Jordahl did recently thanks to a nomination. Dr. John C. Mather, winner of the Nobel Prize ...

Princeton's John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999 were two of seven ...

Geoffrey Hinton is known as the “godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)” for his pioneering work on neural networks. He is a computer scientist, a cognitive psychologist, and he won the Nobel Prize ...

Rice’s Naomi Halas is the recipient of the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in chemistry, awarded “for the creation and development of nanoshells — metal-coated nanoscale particles that can capture light ...

Scientists in Florence have built a device that allows them to study quantum and classical physics side by side. Using ...

The origins of modern AI can be traced back to psychology in the mid-20th century. In 1949, psychologist Donald Hebb proposed ...