By Charlotte LyttonFeatures correspondent Marcin Szczepanski/Michigan Engineering Laser engineer Lauren Weinberg works on the Zeus laser system (Credit: Marcin Szczepanski/Michigan Engineering) They are the most intense lasers ever built, and their beams are helping scientists probe the fabric of the Universe. Inside a research lab at the University of Michigan, bright green light fills the…

In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Stanford HAI’s fall conference “New Horizons in Generative AI: Science, Creativity, and Society” illuminated the profound impact of AI on scientific exploration. While generative AI for vision and language has garnered public attention, the conference delved deeper, spotlighting the diverse spectrum of generative AI research from its application in…

In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, Stanford HAI’s fall conference “New Horizons in Generative AI: Science, Creativity, and Society” illuminated the profound impact of AI on scientific exploration. While generative AI for vision and language has garnered public attention, the conference delved deeper, spotlighting the diverse spectrum of generative AI research from its application in…

A West Virginia University research team is working on ways to eliminate the rampant human-made radio interference from cell phones, televisions and radar systems that can block the detection of radio signals by astronomers. With $510,000 in funding support from the National Science Foundation, team members will develop new algorithms and hardware with potentially broad…

Illustration by Malte Mueller/Getty Images. Increasingly, Americans of all generations are suffering from climate anxiety. There are, of course, a growing number of people who are directly impacted by climate disasters — severe weather, extreme heat, wildfires, even sunny-day flooding. But there are also an increasing number of people who are simply prone to worry — and in…

Illustration by Malte Mueller/Getty Images. Increasingly, Americans of all generations are suffering from climate anxiety. There are, of course, a growing number of people who are directly impacted by climate disasters — severe weather, extreme heat, wildfires, even sunny-day flooding. But there are also an increasing number of people who are simply prone to worry — and in…

Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good. From a story on Financial Times: As the Oxford university psychologist Dorothy Bishop has written, we only know about the ones who get caught. In her view, our “relaxed attitude” to the scientific fraud epidemic is a…

Nicholas Coleman, left, a University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science student, and Maryland Department of Natural Resources scientist Matt Baldwin release “Igor,” a tagged Atlantic sturgeon and an endangered species, into the Marshyhope Creek in September 2021. The fish has been detected every fall for the past eight years during the spawning run in…