Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

A $1 million prize awaits anyone who can show where the math of fluid flow breaks down. With specially trained AI systems, ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Researchers built autonomous robots the size of salt grains—with onboard computers, sensors, and motors that think and swim ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

A first-of-its-kind space telescope could soon launch into orbit and potentially chart a new path forward for astronomy.

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

In a sense, it sounds like that’s another facet of computational thinking that’s more relevant in the age of AI—the abstractions of statistics and probability in addition to algorithms and data ...