When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice.

If that’s left you feeling a little confused, fear not. As we near the end of 2025, our writers have taken a look back over ...

While AI can help make systems more efficient and reduce waste, its own energy needs are growing rapidly, creating an energy paradox. Beyond energy, AI’s environmental cost includes hardware ...

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the standout game of the year, and gets the nod from us as 2025’s best.

Regardless of the answers, the era of entanglement under infinite book‐keeping is giving way to an era of entanglement under limited books, limited clocks and limited gates. And in this more realistic ...

Halloween is tomorrow, which means you're basically out of time to think of a good costume idea. But no pressure! Halloween should be fun, not stressful. There's a lot you can still do in what little ...

Abstract: Panchromatic images (PANs) and multispectral (MS) images (MSs) are widely used for dual-source remote sensing image classification, gradually becoming a research hotspot. However, making 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 ...

Model distillation is one of the technology trends that has reached a level of maturity identified in Gartner’s 2025 Hype Cycle for artificial intelligence (AI) as “the slope of enlightenment”.