A $40 billion plan proposes massive desalination plants to save the Colorado River, but critics call it "crazy." ...

One of the basic reference points in coastal science has been less reliable than many researchers assumed. A growing body of work now shows that sea-level estimates can drift off course when ...

As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other's shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.

What may look like toys are actually tools to learn STEM skills at The Learning Experience in Oak Creek. Through their “Little Engineers” program, students are given toolkits ...

New users often try ChatGPT once or twice, get a bland answer, then walk away. Yet the same system that feels underwhelming ...

We’re talking about future inventions ideas for students to explore, the kind of stuff that sounds like science fiction but ...

A new AI framework called THOR is transforming how scientists calculate the behavior of atoms inside materials. Instead of relying on slow simulations that take weeks of supercomputer time, the system ...

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have uncovered a new way to manipulate unusual magnetic states by exploiting “frustration” ...