The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the ...

Cheng, R. , Liu, J. , Hao, L. and Wu, D. (2026) On the Application of the Infinitesimal Method to Two Categories of Problems in College Physics. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 378-389. doi: ...

“AI in distribution is like sex in high school: everyone’s talking about it, hardly anyone is doing it, and those who are… aren’t doing it well.” A room of distribution leaders laughed at a vendor’s ...

The most recent demonstration of IDT occurred during the Assembly of 10,000 for World Peace in India (December 2023–January ...

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College led to a mass unplugging by curious undergrads. Some found clarity; others were just trying to find their friends. A student-organized “tech fast” ...

A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans. By Kevin Roose Casey Newton and Rachel Cohn The leaders of the biggest A.I. labs argue that ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

The conference billed itself as the first to feature all A.I.-generated research. Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images Should scientists use artificial intelligence to help conduct research or write up the ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. In 1934, Edwin Embree made an informal list of “the dozen greatest ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.