In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The risk of flights being hit by space junk is still small, but it’s growing. About three pieces of old space equipment —used rockets and defunct satellites—fall into Earth’s atmosphere every day, ...

This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s series “The New Conspiracy Age,” on how the present boom in conspiracy theories ...

Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.

For over a century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity have stood as the cornerstones of modern physics, yet their unification remains one of science’s greatest challenges. Now, ...

NASA has confirmed an unusual acceleration in the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its closest approach to the Sun on ...

World-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely known for cutting-edge research in many disciplines ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...