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Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

Animal models of autism haven't helped autistic people enough. So why do scientists still use them?

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure.

Explore the shocking discovery in high-temperature superconductors that may initiate a new era of power.

A huge, fluffy planet known as WASP-193b was discovered orbiting a distant star in our Milky Way galaxy — a new key to the mystery of how such giant, super-light planets form.

James ''Jim'' Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation's biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86.

The secret whirlpools of life's foundational cells could bring major medical breakthroughs.

Egg cells are the largest single cells on the planet. Their size—often several to hundreds of times the size of a typical cell—allows them to grow into entire organisms, but it also makes it difficult to transport nutrients and other molecules around the cell. Scientists have long known that maturing egg cells, called oocytes, generate internal, twister-like fluid flows to transport nutrients, but how those flows…

Preterm, COVID-exposed infants with respiratory distress had marked inflammatory responses

The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled more than $3.5 billion in 2023. Four universities received big gifts in 2023, along with four scientific research institutes and a health-care system. The other gifts went to a family foundation and a racial-justice group.

A team of Princeton astrophysicists has now determined conclusively that energy close to black hole M87* is pushing outward, not inward, a longstanding debate within the field. The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Almost eve

What's the opposite of OpenAI? IBM and Meta devise plan that includes 50 members.

Several unexplained measurements are threatening to upend scientists' understanding of the universe's origin and fate

On September 14, 2023, the NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena independent study team published its final report containing a series of recommendations for how the agency could help to move our understanding of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) forward.

NASA is releasing a new report from advisers on what it would take for the agency to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (also known as UFOs) scientifically.

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.

History shows ways to support the Ukrainian scientific system

Researchers developed a deep learning model, TIGER, that accurately predicts on- and off-target activity of RNA-targeting CRISPR tools.

The link between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the body's 'second brain' is more apparent than ever before.

Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simons met his wife at Stony Brook University, and was a teacher there.