For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

When you interact with a large language model (LLM)—one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude—it can feel ...

Following a four-year study, scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography released a new report to ...

Quantum physics is a prime example. It began as a highly controversial idea – as a fundamental branch of physics that ...

U.S. News & World Report 2026-27 has ranked UC Berkeley as the No. 1 public university in the U.S., No. 4 U.S. university in the global rankings and No. 7 ...

It's been a busy stretch at The Auto Wire. From a deadly carjacking pursuit in Los Angeles to a once-in-a-lifetime Shelby giveaway, here's a roundup of everything we published between June 22 and June ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the classroom and academics to the gym, the river, the studio, and even the ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

Scientists have created a powerful new way to control quantum systems, achieving the first-ever demonstration of quadsqueezing—an elusive fourth-order quantum effect. By combining simple forces in a ...

A weird force that skirts traditional physics norms has helped erase a smudge on the foundations of particle physics. It’s a phenomenon called the “neutrino force,” by which neutrinos could ...

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For over a decade, confusion over the size of the proton has held scientists back. Disagreeing measurements of the subatomic particle’s radius meant that scientists couldn’t test one of their key ...