'Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments' premieres on October 9.

Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first…

A science project that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs built for his 8th-grade science fair sold at auction for $34,375. Jobs was attending Cupertino Jr. High when he designed the project, which is titled "What is the SCR?" The lot includes a display board b…

The spacecraft is currently approaching the outer boundary of the solar system as it prepares to cross into interstellar space.

It’s been 66 million years and science is still learning more about the most famous dinosaur.

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vanta…

It's the hot new thing in tech, and it's where all the jobs are. Students who don't learn to use it fall behind. And to help them catch up in time, its creators are graciously providing the resources and curriculum for learning it, often pro bono. That's the …

The adult dinosaur had a 13-foot stride, and moved about as fast as a human walking at a brisk pace.

Brain coach Jim Kwik explains the science behind starting your day right.

It takes more than a computer science degree to land a job after graduating from college.

While Hackaday’s bread and butter is, of course, hacks, we sometimes cover things that most of us are interested in that are probably out of reach for the typical hacker. Space, for example, …

Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industry stokes them for publicity and to shape regulation. The EU AI Act already lists…

Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.

That rumored foldable iPhone didn’t come from nowhere. Experts from CNET, PCMag, Mashable, Popular Science, ZDNET and Lifehacker examine Apple’s most important tech reveals.

That rumored foldable iPhone didn’t come from nowhere. Experts from CNET, PCMag, Mashable, Popular Science, ZDNET and Lifehacker examine Apple’s most important tech reveals.

By building around when your people think their best, you’re encouraging them to perform at their highest level. And who doesn’t want that?

Students who use AI to help them study tend to perform worse at school than those who don't, according to data from a global OECD educational report. The situation is more complex than it sounds though, with certain types of AI use giving learners a slight bo…

The president interrupted a NASA press briefing to say, "I'm supplying you all that money."

Research published in the journal <em>Science</em> illuminates a "missing piece" in the biological understanding of profound autism and offers new targets for drug development.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI doomer predictions aren't grounded in science and got a call from President Donald Trump to weigh in.

The twin probes need to separate before entering a joint polar orbit around Mercury.

At 15,500 miles per second, it’s the fastest planet or star ever observed by science, but its true value is how close it is to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole.

“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living with chronic diseases,” said Mike Doustdar, president and chief executive of Novo. The Danish drugma…

Has a personalised cancer vaccine become reality?

Prof Stuart Russell offers some advice following a report into July’s Hugging Face hack.

The datacentres are coming, potentially in the hundreds.

Teen reading, math, and science scores have fallen to their lowest levels since international PISA testing began in 2000, with 15-year-olds now reading at roughly the level previously expected of students a year younger. The Organization for Economic Co-opera…

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Whenever the algorithm serves up a steaming…

Synergy between global warming and a type of El Niño not seen since the late 1990s could create unprecedented weather that scientists don’t have enough climate data to model.

Whoever attacked these Roman soldiers appeared to have a signature move: aim for the groin.

Kyron Horman’s family is still seeking answers in his 2010 disappearance.

The city of Mesen lay in a key strategic location for ancient Egypt's military campaigns at the time.

High-school students across Asia are pulling ahead of their Western peers, an annual global assessment indicates, as artificial intelligence spurs a worldwid...

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. …

Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry S…

Researchers may have discovered the signature of a bit of dark matter.

Might the UK and US joining their AI forces help solve nuclear fusion?

The Apple TV series based on Isaac Asimov's stories was renewed just before the season three finale.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will open a whole new window on the cosmos. Here are 10 things it’s likely to show us

Assistant professor of psychology Jessica Ayers’s new research challenges assumptions about the kind of friendships we need

Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved?

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn'…

As any science YouTuber or first-year physics student is quick to point out, the universe is mostly empty space. Not just space itself, but the amount of “empty” space between …read more

… For science, obviously.

Take the statistical AI doomsday warnings and divide them by a grain of salt.

A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on research workflows across scientific domains

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

"By reaching beyond the brain... we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively — to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone."

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me."

"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."

"Every thought that has ever passed through your brain was made possible by plants."

The treatment can reprogram immune cells that have been corrupted by the cancer, strengthening the body’s ability to attack.

RR Auction’s bidding for Steve Jobs’ 1968 science fair project has now closed, with the hand-built exhibit selling for $34,375. Here are the details.

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena–related classified information, but it doesn’t extend to other agencies.

Permit me to regale you with my very niche pet peeve: circular, two-dimensional wormhole entrances in science fiction.  (Fantasy gets a pass; unless you’re trying to do science-y magic, the magic p…

Dogs have developed the ability to parse human speech in ways that mirror our own. The post Why dogs tilt their heads, according to science appeared first on Popular Science.

Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources "close to the program" told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer avail…

Bluetti doesn't want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen) even though that's what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar - aka, a SoGen - is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of inst…

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a new policy today that will ban younger schoolchildren from using AI in classrooms. The one-year moratorium, effective in the 2026-2027 school year, will impact about 600,000 public school students in 2-K thro…

The malleability of memory once cast doubt on eyewitness identification in criminal cases, but new research reveals how eyewitness memory can be used accurately

Rachel Feltman joins Vox’s Unexplainable to discuss the enduring mysteries that continue to challenge science

The Greeks probably were very intelligent, innovative architects—but we're also probably overestimating the extent of their scientific awareness.

Scientists recorded 1,399 local quakes since North Korea began its underground nuclear tests—a spike unlike anything the region has seen since seismic activity was first catalogued there.

Archaeologists say the skeleton, found with a padlock on her toe and a sickle laid across her throat, is likely a case of a community fearing the demonic return of the dead.

Historian Jill Lepore explains what tech leaders miss in their favorite stories—and why the fight over AI data centers may be where the machine stops

Science in meter and verse

Canada is recruiting 64 researchers to universities across the country (source paywalled; alternative source), including 48 from U.S. institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and MIT. The hires are backed by more than $364 million in government funding and are par…

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction

A proposed class action filed in San Francisco alleges Oura’s sleep staging is generated by AI estimates rather than measurement, and names Finnish parent Oura Health Oy as a defendant. Oura says it stands behind its science and accuracy claims. The number Ou…

Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by 58% over 16 years, with carbon payback in about three years. The benefit does not hold for efficient hybrids, …

The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is one of them, with 12 subfields listed underneath. Open-weig…

This is how it works and where it sources its data.

I spoke with one of the creators behind the tool to understand exactly how it works and where it gets its sources.

Celebrate the beauty of nature—and the science that teaches us about it—with winning photography from the researchers themselves.

"We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us."

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

The project and other items from Apple's history are being auctioned off to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary.

The biggest questions in science inspire us even when we lack answers

Science is helping to peel back the layers of how dogs process the world around them

Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of social media and smartphone use is largely to blame for the prominent decline in teen mental health since 2010. I…

A teacher working Straford upon Avon in England was banned from the profession for life after giving them a pen with a hidden camera. Matthew Udall, teaching science, suggested the child use it to "write in a journal" and encouraged them to "change their clot…

The humanoid robot had a look before it had a market. Science fiction settled the question decades ago with bright LEDs and polished metal, and the industry has largely inherited that answer withou…

Science has always been driven by friendly competition and the free exchange of ideas. In the age of AI, it will be driven by greed.

Science will never be able to give a completely objective description of the world. That should make us humbler—and wiser.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby says that being protective of his schedule gives him more time to think, read, and sleep.

Collectors have proven avid fans of Steve Jobs memorabilia over the years, and a new piece seems likely to attract significant interest. It’s an 8th-grade science fair project with two demonstration circuits – and a warning note from Steve to his teachers. It…

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped

The silliest science awards of the year are here, but the Ig Nobels aren’t just funny business

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”, the co…

The sci-fi franchise celebrates its 60th anniversary September 8 with screenings and special events.

Someone needs to call the Space Force's marketing team ASAP.

The sea mammals may be passing on this technique to their young calfs.

The submerged landscape was once home to First Nations people thousands of years ago.