Science

They are firefighters and aid workers, chefs and booksellers—and they’re all on a mission to show up for their Los Angeles community.

Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son came home from school to recount with something between shock and exhilaration how…

Was this the key to speaking in the afterlife?

Microbeam radiation therapy has proven effective in animal studies against tumours in the brain, breast, skin and central nervous system.

Here’s your 2025 moon calendar, with dates for new moons, full moons, solar eclipses, and lunar eclipses, as well as the zodiac signs each occurs in.

In the first three seconds after “Little Boy” detonated over Hiroshima, temperatures soared to 7,000°F, reaching as far as two miles from ground zero. For context, the temperature of the lava that emerges from a volcanic eruption is about 2,400°F.

When you think of AI’s contributions to science, you probably think of AlphaFold, the Google DeepMind protein-folding program that earned its creator a Nobel Prize last year. Now OpenAI says it’s getting into the science game too—with a model for engineering proteins.

The remarkable performance of overparameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) must arise from an interplay between network architecture, training algorithms, and structure in the data.

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It’s about whether you like cities to begin with. Whether it’s a debate over a new energy project, park redevelopment, or new housing construction, local governments can seem almost singularly obsessed with how proposals will impact home values.