The Science Enabling a Steady Supply of Critical Minerals

Six illustrated critical minerals

Targeted Cancer Therapy Gets a Sharper Focus

A researcher wearing a blue T-shirt sits in a research lab.

Scientists Get Real-Time Look Inside Spacecraft Heat Shields During Extreme Heat Conditions

A large circular heat shield with a tiled pattern that shows dark burn marks from the center, mounted on a metal frame in a lab.

A New Close-Up View of Electrons Inside Semiconductors

Two side-by-side microscopic thermal-style maps showing bright yellow, orange, and purple glowing nodes connected by network-like filaments against a black background. Each image includes a white scale bar labeled "20 nm" in the bottom right. The left image contains tiny red flower-like markers scattered throughout, while the right image contains small yellow star icons in similar positions.

Artificial Intelligence

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Accelerating scientific discovery with AI.

Quantum Science

Golden quantum fridge

Quantum information systems are poised to solve global challenges that are far beyond the reach of today’s technologies.

Helsinki Turns AI’s Biggest Problem Into Heat For 70,000 Homes

The Largest 3D Map of the Universe Is Shaking Cosmology to Its Foundations

Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t