NASA is quietly entertaining one of the most audacious telescope concepts ever proposed: using the Sun itself as a giant lens ...

The method has two main features: it evaluates how AI models reason through problems instead of just checking whether their final answers are correct, and it evaluates the quality of training data so ...

Mohanty and a multi-institution team demonstrated a fast, explicit approach to constructing lossless vertex expansion networks.

China is tired of PhD students writing papers that no one reads and is demanding they build real products instead.

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...

As we enter 2026, there are two distinct technologies used by clinicians to interact with the brain: Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Neuromodulation. While the end results are very eye-catching, ...

On Tuesday afternoon, Bob Starkey was in the LSU women’s basketball team’s locker room when he decided to take out his phone and snap a photo he’d later post to Instagram. Starkey wanted people to see ...

Paper recycling consultant Bill Moore says several countries have enacted policies that can boost recovered paper collection rates in nations with developing economies. Industry consultant Bill Moore ...

Optimization problems often involve situations in which the user's goal is to minimize and/or maximize not a single objective function, but several, usually conflicting, functions simultaneously. Such ...

From medical devices to the packaging that keeps food fresh, polymers quietly shape modern life. At Case Western Reserve University, few people understand—and influence—that reality more than João ...

A collage shows a red X over a person in a chemistry lab conducting an experiment. Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock More than 20% of chemistry researchers ...

Taking an E Ink writing tablet on the go can feel like a complete pain. They’re essential to my workflow, but because most are about the size of a regular notebook, they tend to be a little heavy and ...