A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

OpenAI and Anthropic have raised tens of billions of dollars on the promise of artificial intelligence that can make new discoveries in fields like medicine, biology and physics. And yet,we’re nowhere ...

Artificial intelligence is now sorting through telescope data at a pace no human team could match, and the results go beyond ...

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2 million to eight innovative projects, including ones with Northwestern Engineering researchers, through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research ...