The company, American Distillation Inc., repeatedly released chemical-laden wastewater to increase profits. The owner, Andrews Simmons, also pleaded guilty to failing to pay federal taxes. The company ...

Every time someone wanted to plan a scenario for how to act in the face of huge breaking news, all newsrooms in Argentina used the same example: “What do we do the day Diego Maradona dies?” Sadly, ...

Taylor Swift was inspired once again by great works of literature while writing several songs on her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl," which dropped Oct. 3. The album kicks off with the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...

RESTORING THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to restore the historic name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense. This is ...

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Imagine you purchase a bag of gummies labeled nootropic – a term used to describe substances that claim to enhance mental ability and function, or "smart drugs." However, within hours of consuming ...

Making quantum computers fault-tolerant (and scaling effective error correction to enable this) is a key barrier to a new era of quantum supremacy. A new study ...

Stephen Acabado receives funding from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Science Foundation. But behind the spirit’s flash of marketing and growing popularity lies a rarely asked question: ...

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and unknown company said ...

Scientists demonstrate a process called "magic state distillation" in logical qubits for the first time, meaning we can now build quantum computers that are both error-free and more powerful than ...