Science

To what extent can an artificial system be rational?A new MIT course, 6.S044/24.S00 (AI and Rationality), doesn’t...

While NASA is working with U.S. aviation to explore commercial supersonic technologies, the agency is also looking forward to an even faster era of flight – one of vehicles that can fly hypersonic, or five times the speed of...

Available for 33 daysThis week 14 European countries warned that “maritime safety and security” was being put in jeopardy by Russian interference. The Royal Institute of Navigation says GPS is so vulnerable to so called ‘spoofing’ and ‘jamming’ that...

MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of...

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book and learn how typos alter the story.AlphaGenome, created by Google DeepMind, is the latest in an ever-improving line of AI models built...

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy fats” at the top of the inverted food pyramid.Like the food pyramid itself, the new guidelines have upended previous nutrition advice, which...

After a heart attack, the heart “talks” to the brain. And that conversation may make recovery worse.Shutting down nerve cells that send messages from injured heart cells to the brain boosted the heart’s ability to pump and decreased scarring,...

Spiders’ ability to spin webs may be one consequence of a really big genetic mistake.A close look at the genetics and development of spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA...

To an untrained eye, the aircraft engine sitting outside of a Cincinnati facility in December might have looked like standard hardware. But NASA and GE Aerospace researchers watching the unit fire up for a demonstration knew what they were looking at: a...