Warnings about artificial intelligence used to sound like science fiction. Now they are shaping conversations in the Vatican, ...

Leading physicist Saul Perlmutter warns AI can create a false sense of confidence, urging skepticism and constant error-checking.

Artificial intelligence is now woven into search engines, office software, and the apps that quietly run daily life, but the ...

Ask physicist Sekazi Mtingwa how he ended up where he is today, and he’ll start with his grandmother’s deeply religious home. Growing up there in Atlanta, young Mtingwa somehow got the idea that he ...

His promising work at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center brought him and the lab global recognition as well as the hope ...

Community members and friends alike remain stunned days after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a nuclear physicist, was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, ...

Behind the radiation machines used to fight cancer are specialized scientists who bring together medicine and physics to keep patients safe. These highly-trained health professionals play a key role ...

Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of the Large Hadron Collider at the Science Museum in London in 2013. The year before, researchers smashing protons together at the collidor had discovered ...

The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. He was celebrated for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. Today the University of Edinburgh announced the death of the Nobel ...

July 11 of this year marks the 100 th anniversary of the birth of physicist Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (1924–2005). Born in Curitiba to a wealthy immigrant couple from northwestern Italy, César ...