A growing number of U.S. college instructors are turning to oral exams to help combat an AI crisis in higher education.

Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” It’s a testing method as ...

Conducting research is hard; confirming the results is, too. And artificial intelligence isn’t yet ready to help, a major new ...

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...

New research has found ChatGPT-5.2 can generate original mathematical proofs, introducing “vibe-proving” as a new AI ...

Marwitz et al. demonstrate the use of large language models to build semantic concept graphs from materials science abstracts and train a machine learning model to predict emerging topic combinations ...

In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That's harder than it sounds. Memory storage, information processing, and energy use in these ...

Quantum computers are gaining a reputation among chemists and material scientists as promising tools that can tackle problems ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...