Laboratory experiments are controlled empirical methods conducted in artificial or semi-artificial settings to isolate, manipulate, and measure specific variables under reproducible conditions. They ...

Science has always demanded a certain fearlessness — a willingness to venture beyond the known and test the limits of what’s possible. But throughout history, that fearlessness has sometimes crossed ...

OpenAI’s GPT can summarize research papers and make predictions—but can it do science? Can it generate hypotheses, design experiments, interpret results and iterate? Last summer researchers at OpenAI ...

Jeff Dean’s departure rom Google yesterday came as a bit of a shock to most observers, but he’d dropped hints as to ...

Listen, it’s not that I actually want to kill the sun – I just want to figure out how. But when I told my colleagues at New Scientist that I was recruiting scientists to do just this, I was met with ...