Abstract: We present a semi-automated image processing method, the continuous maximum gradient (CMG) method, for identifying the air–water interface in side-view digital images of unidirectional water ...

Ripples in space-time from a pair of merging black holes have been recorded in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists to test predictions of general relativity ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

What happens when you try to surf without water? We built a giant tarp wave and tested how real it feels to ride. With some creativity and teamwork, we made our own surfable wave — no ocean required.

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed ...

ESA’s Swarm satellite mission has discovered a mysterious magnetic wave that "oscillates every seven years and propagates westward at up to 1500 kilometers (932 mi.) a year." Credit: ESA Democratic ...

This past weekend, Winter Storm Fern struck the States. Sleet, snow and ice battered Americans all the way from New Mexico to New York. Scientists predicted its arrival in mid-January, and in ...

The government has launched a series of free AI training courses designed to help people learn how to use the technology at work. The online lessons give advice on things such as how to prompt ...

Prism is a free, collaborative AI workspace for research. It's meant to support, not replace, human-led science. AI-enabled workspaces aim to unite disparate tools. "In 2025, AI changed software ...

As the calendar has flipped to 2026, millions of Americans made resolutions. Research from the Pew Research Center shows the most common resolutions center on health and money — about 79 percent focus ...

Technology from Palantir, an American data analytics company, has been used to help kill... and to help save lives. As its reach expands, questions are growing about this secretive and influential ...

Harvard University is providing seven free online courses in data science, each running for eight to nine weeks and requiring one to two hours of study per week. Applications are open until June 17, ...