China has eclipsed its own – and the US – record, building a monster underground hypergravity centrifuge that can model ...

For many years, scientists believed rising CO₂ levels would help Earth’s plants significantly slow climate change. As carbon dioxide increased in the atmosphere, plants were expected to grow faster ...

World models are the building blocks to the next era of physical AI -- and a future in which AI is more firmly rooted in our reality.

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Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Short-lived radioisotopes such as aluminum-26 influenced early solar system heat, water retention and the formation of Earth-like rocky planets, according to meteorite analyses and models.

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

The country plans to reinforce its dominance of global manufacturing, despite persistent deflation at home and rising ...

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After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of ...

Climate risks are global, but prediction systems remain nationally siloed. The NCAR breakup shows why weather and climate ...

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