Applied physics bridges the gap between physics, engineering, and other sciences. While engineers solve well-defined problems, applied physicists focus on applying physics interdisciplinarily. At ...

Academics often lack the skills to engage with very young audiences, which can make STEM feel abstract. Charlotte Maughan Jones shares tips on using the right language and understanding what’s importa ...

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

For the first time, researchers have developed a way to create chilled molecules containing the radioactive element radium.

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New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

During the day, our brain acquires new memories; at night, during sleep, it consolidates the important ones and eliminates ...

The properties of ultrathin magnets can be specifically altered by a slight twist between two atomic monolayers. This is the ...

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

Wall Street already runs on Coordinated Universal Time. So why not the rest of the country?

Large language models (LLMs), the computational algorithms underpinning ChatGPT, Gemini and other artificial intelligence (AI ...