Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence ...

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.

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

Tech companies are claiming machines more intelligent than us and capable of having their own agendas are just around the ...

“When will AI achieve humanlike intelligence?” I recently asked a friend. “It already has,” he replied, suggesting that if you were to travel back in time to 1995 and evaluate our current versions of ...

Nadir Jeevanjee works for NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is discussed in this podcast episode. The views expressed herein are in no sense official positions of the Geophysical ...

The U.S. Department of Energy building is seen behind a sign marking the location of the agency's headquarters on March 18, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by J.David Ake/Getty Images) The Department ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close, and with the tropics quieting down for a winter slumber, the focus of forecasters turns to evaluating what worked and what did not during the ...

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting how proteins will interact with small molecules, such as drugs. The model, OpenFold3, which launched ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Climate models are complex, just like the world they ...