When Japan’s Hitomi satellite trained its X-ray spectrometer on the Perseus Cluster in early 2016, it had just weeks to live.

A single drug can take more than a decade and an estimated $2.6 billion to bring to market, and much of that time is spent ...

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A new testing framework designed to evaluate AI's chemistry skills has revealed gaps in what today's most powerful models can ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

Polymers are fundamental to our daily lives, serving as the core components for a wide array of goods, including clothing, packaging, transportation infrastructure, construction materials, and ...

Chemist Jixin Chen looked at the rapid spread of COVID-19 early in the pandemic and saw a novel opportunity for his kinetics lab, where they study the rates of reactions. Chemist Jixin Chen looked at ...

Textbook models will need to be re-drawn after a team of researchers found that water molecules at the surface of salt water are organised differently than previously thought. Many important reactions ...

Chief Data Scientist at Reorg, a global provider of credit intelligence, data and analytics, and Adjunct at UVA’s School of Data Science. Data science models deal with uncertainty. Apart from limited ...