China is known as the world's earliest civilization to discover and utilize natural lacquer. Archaeological evidence confirms a lacquerware tradition dating back about 8,000 years, which has ...

The researchers had two AIs play a large number of ancient European board games, including Scandinavia’s Haretavl and Italy’s Gioco dell’orso, until they landed on one that could have caused the stone ...

As enterprises pour billions into GPU infrastructure for AI workloads, many are discovering that their expensive compute resources sit idle far more than expected. The culprit isn't the hardware. It’s ...

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same time. Matter no longer behaves like solid objects moving along clear paths.

The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

A strange form of matter called a time crystal has fascinated physicists for about a decade. These systems move in repeating ...

When you go for a walk, how does your brain know the difference between a parked car and a moving car? This seemingly simple ...

These newly discovered spinning crystals twist, break, and heal themselves, revealing a strange new side of solid matter.

Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era. By Stephanie Saul A protester detained, her bra ...