A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

The space science community has long prided itself on its ability to inspire and move people of all backgrounds, but President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders demanding the end of diversity programs have thrown that optimism into chaos. In response, …

The Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album goes deep on their “fascination with science.” WIRED Japan took Hikaru Utada to visit the Large Hadron Collider to learn more.

The Trump administration's chilling effect on science agencies affects more than just funding.

David Geier and his father Mark Geier have a long track record of misrepresenting the science on vaccine safety.

A new review of the evidence finds that only a handful of common remedies provide a modest benefit for acute or chronic back pain.

The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments.

International research finds the gender gap in Year 9 maths in England is wider than any other participating country.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have private companies deliver shipments of equipment to the lunar surface.

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based commercial aerospace firm announced on Sunday that its lander had “so…

It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking measures to sque…

A growing body of evidence points to mounting health risks posed by climate change. Despite this, it seems the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will quit funding that kind of research. ProPublica first reported the news on Monday, citing internal records t…

Paul Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University, created arXiv nearly 35 years ago as a digital repository where researchers could share their findings before peer review. Today, the platform hosts more than 2.6 million papers, receives 20,000 new su…

Schrödinger’s cat is alive and dead at the same time. Ironically enough, so is quantum computing.

The key to deeply connecting with others is about more than just talking — it's about asking the right kinds of questions, says journalist and author Charles Duhigg. He explores research-backed tools to have more meaningful conversations, sharing a simple yet…

The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ocean made possible thanks to new satellite technology. The fa…

Data science is one of the few fields resilient to the current federal budget pauses and reductions, says data scientist Chris Mattmann.

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 Science Talent Search award.

Newly announced layoffs highlight the troubling impact of DOGE on the space agency and federal workers as a whole.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A former director of data science at the UK prime minister's office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sector. I…

Children's Health Defense published an anti-vaccine webpage that appeared almost identical to the CDC site.

The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow commissioner Melissa Holyoak and executive director Davi…

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

Chronic loneliness can increase cortisol and inflammation and weaken your immune system, says social scientist Kasley Killiam. She argues it’s time to accept that good quality social connections are a fundamental human need.

Will science return the favor?

Don't try to reform science. Not yet. Not in your PhD. In grad school, you'll start complaining about the publishing...

The ad hoc addition to the otherwise tightly controlled White House information environment could create blind spots and security exposures while setting potentially dangerous precedent.

Using 3D models of ancient skulls, Dinosaur Choir gets us closer than ever to understanding the noises that dinosaurs made.

Google has developed an AI model that gives humanoids and other robots more intelligence—and a tool designed to give them a moral compass too.

A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.

Researchers descended more than 35,700 feet (10,900 meters) below sea level to collect biological samples that revealed surprising diversity. And also trash.

On today’s episode, we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a piece for The Verge about bird flu and how it’s becoming a forever war, is joining me on the show, and we’re going to talk about the systems, st…

Zeynep Tufecki, a Times columnist and sociology professor at Princeton University, wrote in a recent opinion piece that the science community hid crucial...

America has been first in scientific progress, Dhruv Khullar writes. But Trump is upending the long-standing bipartisan consensus that the government should fund scientific research and then mostly stay out of the way.

Science fiction authors and readers dream of travelling at the speed of light, but Einstien tells us we can’t. You might think that’s an arbitrary rule, but [FloatHeadPhysics] shows a …read more

There’s a classic grade school science experiment that involves extracting juice from red cabbage leaves and using it as a pH indicator. It relies on anthocyanins, pigmented compounds that give …read more

Jim Al-Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John L Heilbron.

“Stand Up for Science” shows how science supporters are coming together

AI courses are increasingly attracting students from non-STEM backgrounds. Here's how schools are changing to help educate people.

China Miéville, known for his "new weird" fiction, said sci-fi is a reflection of the present rather than a road map to be followed.

However the researchers say butterflies may be able to recover if urgent conservation measures are taken.

Entrepreneur Taylor Posada scaled her new Etsy shop and made over $48,000 in four months using data from Etsy ads, sales, and listing images.

In the dozen or so hours a friend and I put into Split Fiction, the latest co-op game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight, it never seemed to run out of ideas. This latest release, with its marriage of fantasy and science fiction, still feels as fresh and i…

Split Fiction’s entire schtick is that it swaps back and forth between virtual recreations of its two leads’ stories. Mio, the angsty introvert of the duo, writes science fiction to cope with her difficult upbringing. Zoe, a bubbly fantasy writer, escapes int…

An outsider's unintentional foray into science

The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—starting with a very furry mouse.

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

The Natal Conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married, WIRED has learned.

What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

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When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties.

Uncorrected errors in science and the unconscionable reluctance to correct them erodes trust in science, throws away taxpayer money, harms the public’s health and can kill innocent people

GUEST: AI has evolved at an astonishing pace. What seemed like science fiction just a few years ago is now an undeniable reality. Back in 2017, my firm launched an AI Center of Excellence. AI was certainly getting better at predictive analytics and many machi…

Self-love isn’t self-indulgence — it’s the learnable skill of treating yourself with the kindness you'd offer a friend, says mindfulness expert Dan Harris. He shares science-backed tips for improving your relationship with yourself and shows how a little more…

Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to the Trump administration calling for a stop to the “assault” on science.

The Cygnus spacecraft sustained damage on its way to the launch site and was deemed unfit to fly.

Science in meter and verse

Künstliche Gravitation ist in der Science Fiction alltäglich. Doch wie realistisch sind diese Ansätze und wie könnte Schwerkraft im All wirklich funktionieren?

A "decision science partner" at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists: Researchers have struggled for d…

RFK Jr. has claimed measles can be treated with vitamin A and that severe infection is linked to poor diet. But many experts who spoke with ABC News disagreed.

The Neuroscientist, the Nanny, and the Shaky Science of Shaken Baby Syndrome

How art and science combined to bring a lost world to life

People commonly think of time as a fixed, linear, objective structure. But our own experiences belie this belief. We’ve all been in situations where time has seemed to drag on or speed up, and there are even whole periods of our lives that seem to have gone b…

Despite fears that speaking out will make them targets, top researchers warn that the Trump administration’s “wholesale assault on U.S. science” will harm the nation

Serratia marcescens, a pathogen with an uncanny resemblance to blood, has had an outsized influence on modern science.

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging the administration to not roll back copyright protections at the behest…

Job placement rates have declined at all top U.S. business schools [non-paywalled source] since 2021, leaving MBA graduates anxious about their expensive degrees' return on investment. Harvard Business School, which produced Wall Street titans like Bill Ackma…

A personal quest and progress in brain science finally put a name on baffling behaviors

The nation's space agency is cutting costs at the behest of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, as part of the Trump administration's slashing of science funding.

More than 1,600 respondents reflected the chilling effect across research fields caused by the slashing of federal funding for universities and science agencies.

Ce mercredi, Pixar présentait la nouvelle bande-annonce de son film de science-fiction Elio. De science-fiction ? Plus vraiment.

A new study from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence shows concerns from the science community on the state of AI research.

It's Pi Day 2025, and we can't wait to celebrate with exactly 3.14 wonderful pi-related projects. The post 3.14 Tasty Projects to Celebrate Pi Day 2025 appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers.

With memory safety becoming more important in the world of computer science, I offer a brief opinion piece on why I choose to implement codecs in C.

“Everything everyone knows about anything indicates that this is untrue,” – Laurent Bossavit The words science and engineering are often used when discussing computers and software. The…

Here's today's Connections: Sports Edition answer and hints for groups. These clues will help you solve The New York Times' popular puzzle game, Connections: Sports Edition, every day.

Intuitive Machines aimed for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill. The company is still assessing the landing.

It's the latest evidence to suggest that animal-to-human transplantation is feasible.

Recent research throws into question whether GLP-1 drugs increase the risk of certain types of thyroid cancer.

Trump administration plans to destroy EPA science will leave the air we breathe and the water we drink more polluted

Elite Dangerous, the massively multiplayer spacefaring game first launched in 2014, has had its share of ups and downs over the years — sometimes even during the same in-game event. But after more than a decade online, there’s still nothing else quite like it…

36-year-old Ankit Masrani worked as a software engineer at AWS before landing a security job at Microsoft.

Researchers and other advocates for science gathered at Stand Up for Science rallies around the US and the world to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific research

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

A company is selling what it calls the world’s first “code deployable biological computer.”

Brazil ruins the environment to make it easier to host a conference about solving climate change.

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected with the deadliest species of Ebola.

Athena is scheduled for touchdown on Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET and hopes to succeed where its predecessor faltered.

A slab of rock at an Australian high school, a boulder in a parking lot, and a bookend in a private collection feature 200-million-year-old dinosaur footprints.

The study supports a new take on a controversial hypothesis from the 1950s.

The new 8.5-foot telescope is set to launch this Tuesday by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a clear objective: to explore the origins of the universe.

Luc Bessons Das Fünfte Element gilt als einer DER Science-Fiction-Klassiker der 1990er. Mit unserem Quiz der Woche fragen wir Ihr Nerdwissen ab.