Robotics

Questioning everything

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of partic...

Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence fr...

Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Welsh cave

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggest they were made delibe...

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is being explored as a long C...

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COV...

Oldest cave art in the U.K. discovered inside Wales cave

A new analysis of red lines inside a U.K. cave suggest they were made deliberate...

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Fill your bingo card with fascinating science stories, discoveries and ideas all...

China launches rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 with zero warning

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maid...

How the war in Iran is affecting your dinner plate

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The rea...

Andrew Scott talks about World War II, D-Day and weathe...

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure...

Scientists are racing to stop a type of Ebola we have n...

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are makin...

Hurricane season explained—and what to expect in 2026

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclo...

These exotic particles could break physics

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at wei...

Top U.S. science funder slows research grants to univer...

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to ce...

New protein-folding AI vastly expands on Alphafold's ef...

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly incre...

Why high-bandwidth memory is a bottleneck for AI chips

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it h...

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral g...

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is go...

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