Today’s leading AI models can already write and refine their own software. The question is whether that self-improvement can ...

Researchers are edging closer to experiments that claim to supply artificial intelligence with a missing ingredient for ...

The lab robots — adapted, lidar-guided [light detection and ranging] industrial units made by Kuka of Germany — move slowly between automated benchtop reactors and analytical equipment, carrying out ...

For decades, manufacturing research and d (R&D) has largely relied on a time-tested but costly model: trial and error. Scientists and engineers iterate through experiments, testing different material ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

On 20 November 2025, Ministers Kanishka Narayan MP and Lord Patrick Vallance published the UK's AI for Science Strategy, a ...

When “data scientist” was coined in the 1960s, the role focused on pattern recognition to extract insights from data. Today, the amount of data has grown so substantially that we developed more ...

Everyday frustrations in science, from unstable jobs to opaque journals, might feel abstract to non-scientists, but they ...

Physics dazzled Miles Cranmer from an early age. His grandfather, a physics professor at the University of Toronto, gave him books on the subject, and his parents took him to open houses at ...