Category: Science/Nature

Six planets – Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune – will all be visible in the night sky. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Iowa lawmakers voted to advance state House bill 751 last week, legislation that would ensure farmers in the state can freely repair their own agricultural equipment, like tractors. This Tuesday, the bill was renamed to House File 2709 and will be voted on again. Should the political winds align, it will go through the Iowa […]

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health disorder that is characterized by psychosis, making it difficult for a person to tell what is real. It impacts about one per cent of the Canadian population and is linked to major health challenges, including a shorter life span. Many factors can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia, such […]

A false-colour X-ray showing a large neural tube defect (red) on both sides of the lower back in someone with spina bifida SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A patch made of stem cells from donor placentas has been used to treat fetuses in the womb with a severe form of spina bifida as part of a world-first […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday revealed that childhood and teen obesity rates in the U.S. have reached record highs in recent years. The first report details how the CDC’s researchers found that 40.3 percent of adults 20 and older were found to be obese, which included 9.7 percent who have… […]

February 26, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Head-to-head trial pitting Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 against oral semaglutide underscores efficacy of weight-loss pills A new trial found that Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 pill resulted in greater reductions in blood sugar levels and weight than oral semaglutide did, but fewer people stayed on it […]

When your average daily token usage is 8 billion a day, you have a massive scale problem. This was the case at AT&T, and chief data officer Andy Markus and his team recognized that it simply wasn’t feasible (or economical) to push everything through large reasoning models. So, when building out an internal Ask AT&T […]

February 26, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Neanderthal and human interbreeding tended to follow a specific pattern Interbreeding between Neanderthals and ancient anatomically modern humans primarily occurred between male Neanderthals and female humans, a new study suggests By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron A Neanderthal man at a human […]

Featured Podcasts The Upstarts Podcast: Valar Atomics’ Isaiah Taylor: Solving AI’s Energy Crisis With Nuclear ‘Gigasites’ Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast. Access: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on […]

AirSnitch “breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks,” Xin’an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. “Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform] cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will […]

“To realize the promise of Industry 5.0, companies must move beyond cost and efficiency to focus on growth, resilience, and human-centric outcomes,” says Sachin Lulla, EY Americas industrials and energy transformation leader. “This requires not just new technologies, but new ways of working—where people and machines collaborate, and where value is measured not just in […]

Wynn Resorts is facing mounting legal trouble in the wake of its recent cybersecurity incident, as a wave of class action lawsuits moves through federal court. The company maintains the situation is under control, but plaintiffs argue the fallout is far more serious. Wynn previously told ReadWrite that “an unauthorized third party acquired certain employee […]

San Francisco, CA, February 26, 2026 — Great things happen in threes for SweetRush, a global leader in innovative learning strategies, solutions and technologies, with its third consecutive year as No. 1 on eLearning Industry’s list of Top Content Providers with AI Tools Expertise. eLearning Industry founder Christopher Pappas enumerates the benefits of partnering with […]

Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK’s first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Did the Moon have a strong magnetic field in its early history, or a weak one? Researchers have debated that question for years. A new study in Nature Geoscience now suggests the debate can finally be put to rest: the Moon experienced brief bursts of intense magnetism, but for most of its history, its field […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Trump’s State of the Union speech made no mention of Make America Healthy Again On Tuesday the U.S. president largely steered clear of his administration’s health care agenda amid a broader push to downplay antivaccine efforts ahead of upcoming midterm elections By Tanya Lewis […]

Fourth grade art students are ready for new challenges, like trying out perspective or exploring tessellations. These projects are all well within their abilities but will also encourage your students to push themselves to create cool new works of art they’ll be proud to take home and show off. We’ve got art projects for 4th […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA identifies which astronaut triggered the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Astronaut […]

Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast? Most of us can call up such pictures in our minds. We can visualize the past and summon images of the future. But for an estimated 4% of people, this mental […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny Former Harvard president Larry Summers will step back from his teaching and faculty positions at the end of the academic year By Claire Cameron edited by Clara Moskowitz David Paul […]

Hi, ELA educators! I’m Heather, a former middle school teacher and current content creator here at Khan Academy. I’m excited to share five ways you can use our new, standards-aligned 4th–10th grade ELA courses to support student learning in your classroom. 1. Build test-ready readers with weekly spiral review. At Khan Academy, we design our […]

February 25, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050 A new projection study estimates that nearly a third of women aged 22 to 44 will have been diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease by 2050 By Lauren J. Young edited by Claire Cameron […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Nobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein ties Richard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his long ties to Jeffrey Epstein By Dan Vergano edited by Claire Cameron Richard Axel and his wife, […]

February 25, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Squeak! The surprising new physics of why basketball games are so noisy A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on their sole hold the key By Joseph Howlett edited by Lee […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner X-ray: NASA/CXC/John […]

February 25, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm ‘Wellness influencer’ Casey Means heads to confirmation hearing The U.S. Senate is holding a confirmation hearing today for wellness influencer Casey Means, the Trump administration’s pick for surgeon general By Dan Vergano edited by Tanya Lewis Snow falls on the U.S. Capitol on February […]

But in the worst worst-case scenario, we don’t have any control. Instead, the station will crack through the atmosphere. Sure, many pieces will likely end up in the ocean, but some might hit people, possibly in a town or a city. The station could break apart across thousands of miles and multiple continents. This would […]

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. For many of us, our mental picture of romantic love is a couple. After all, a firmly monogamous relationship between two people—ideally married—is often portrayed in popular culture as #goals. And to some degree that is reflected in American attitudes. A […]

The birds moult to protect themselves, but in a warming world, it could be endangering them. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Chimpanzee pee reveals how our primate cousins are getting drunk on fermented fruit A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior By K. R. Callaway edited by Claire Cameron Chimps are […]

February 25, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Baby butterflies keep the beat to fool ants into taking care of them These caterpillars rely on ants to tend them, and they use a surprisingly complex sense of rhythm to make it happen By Meghan Bartels edited by Andrea Thompson An ant carrying […]

Local authorities blame the delays on a lack of funding and a shortage of bin lorries. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Independent climate change advisors say the Scottish government needs to ramp up the rollout of heat pumps immediately. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

In Colorado, as of 2025, about 500 people a year die from lung cancer as a result of radon gas exposure. Nationally, the number of lung cancer deaths attributed to radon is about 21,000 per year. Radon is present nearly everywhere outdoors, yet typically at levels that are not harmful. It becomes dangerous when it […]

An illustration of the molecule rapamycin, which may aid extend your life, but then again, may not Science Photo Library The longevity benefits of fasting or taking rapamycin are more like a lottery than a sure bet. The interventions were linked to a robustly extended lifespan less than a year ago, but a reanalysis of […]

Two Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are floating an amendment to an abortion bill that would bring homicide charges against expecting mothers who choose to terminate their pregnancies. The GOP sponsors, state Rep. Jody Barrett (Dickson) and state Sen. Mark Pody (Lebanon), have not formally filed the amendment to House Bill 570/Senate Bill 738, according to… […]

JBL makes a mean Bluetooth speaker, and the brand’s Flip series has been my all-time favorite for multiple generations. The JBL Flip 7 is its best yet, with good sound, a travel-ready size, and subtle but effective upgrades over the previous two models in both sound and features. I love this speaker and its nearly […]

February 24, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Ghostly UV sparks light up forests as thunderstorms pass overhead Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner For almost a century, scientists have wondered […]

From skating to curling, the thrilling sports of the Winter Olympics have plenty of science behind them. Follow our coverage here to learn more. Downhill skier Lindsey Vonn has won plaudits not only for her ability in her sport but also for her capacity to endure. By committing to compete despite tearing her anterior cruciate […]

February 24, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Horses whinny by making sounds in a unique way that is not seen in other animals The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low and high pitch sounds together, like grunting and whistling at the same time By Jackie […]

Mathematicians just made a big leap forward on one of the field’s all-time favorite problems. Curves—squiggly lines through space, such as a comet’s trajectory or a stock market trend—are some of math’s simplest objects. But even though they have been studied for thousands of years, mathematicians still have some basic questions about them left unanswered. […]

New contract will require patients in England to be given immediate appointment if needed. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

February 24, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Female caribou grow antlers as a built-in postbirthing snack A recent study found an unexpected benefit of female caribou antlers: they can function like a vitamin for deer that have just given birth By Emma Gometz edited by Andrea Thompson A mother caribou stands […]

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A  —  – Letter AI has raised $40 million and is now valued in the hundreds of millions.  — The sales software startup uses AI to deliver real-time, deal-specific guidance. […]

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the distance between a developer’s idea and a functioning agent has historically been measured in hours of configuration, dependency conflicts, and terminal-induced headaches. That friction point changed today. Kilo, the AI infrastructure startup backed by GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij, has announced the general availability of KiloClaw, a […]

Dabble is pushing further into the United States, adding Colorado to its growing list of live markets. The Austin-based daily fantasy sports app said on Monday (February 23) that players in Colorado can now access its platform, making it the company’s 31st active state as it continues to widen its reach in regulated jurisdictions. The […]

Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews haul millions of sharks out of protected seas, and smugglers carry countless animals and plants across borders. This illegal activity is incredibly hard to disrupt, since it’s backed by sophisticated criminal networks and the perpetrators know that their chances of being caught are slim. With an […]

February 24, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm See the rosy glow of Uranus in its full 3D glory Fresh observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how vivid auroras surge through Uranus’s tilted magnetic field By Lee Billings edited by Claire Cameron Multiple views of Uranus, as seen by the […]

Few AI products have found the kind of product-market fit we’ve seen from Claude Code. On the eve of the product’s first anniversary, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny explains why Claude Code is so powerful, all the work left to do, and why he no longer writes any code himself. After that, The Verge’s Hayden Field joins […]

American Fork, Utah, February 10, 2026 — ELB Learning, a strategic workforce development partner to 80% of the Fortune 100, announced today the launch of AI Roleplay. This AI-powered simulation tool helps teams practice challenging, real-world conversations before they happen. AI Roleplay is a new feature within Rehearsal, ELB’s video practice and coaching platform, as […]

Thousands of streams could make villages and towns energy independent, experts say. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Naomi Spittles refuses to provide balloons for memorial releases and says “it infuriates me”. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

contributed by Vivian Ivey, Principal, Aloma High School, Orlando, FL It’s no surprise that teachers are facing growing pressures. They engage with diverse students, each bringing their own unique backgrounds, life experiences and personalities. In these potentially challenging circumstances, teachers often need support to prevent burnout, especially when facing personal hardships outside the classroom or […]

Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues. Mindfulness is a type of Buddhist-based meditation in which you focus on being aware of what you’re sensing, thinking, and feeling in the present moment. The first recorded evidence for this, […]

February 23, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Who should shovel the snow? This weird math puzzle can help Blizzards are a real-life example of what game theorists call the “snowdrift problem,” a cousin of the prisoner’s dilemma that offers clues to why we choose to cooperate By Joseph Howlett edited by […]

Sensing our environment is one of the most important skills that define life. Registering temperatures around us is critical to adapting and protecting ourselves from harm, either from scorching heat or freezing cold. The microscopic cold sensor in our skin was discovered in the early 2000s. However, exactly how it works remained a mystery. Now, […]

Florida teachers, are you looking for ways to support students in your classroom who aren’t reading up to grade-level standards? The New Worlds Reading Initiative wants to help! Eligible students can receive free books, sent directly to their homes each month throughout the school year. Here’s how the program works. FREE PRINTABLE GUIDES New Worlds […]

An ingredient in the prescription diabetes drug Mounjaro was found to reduce alcohol intake in rodents, according to a recent study. In the study, published in early January in the medical journal eBioMedicine, researchers in Sweden, South Carolina and Brazil looked at how the ingredient, tirzepatide, affected rodents. The researchers found that alcohol’s “rewarding properties”… […]

February 23, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Ancient art could hold clues to the origins of written language Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine […]

The Adorant figurine, approximately 38,000 years old, consists of a small, ivory plate bearing an anthropomorphic figure and multiple sequences of notches and dots Landesmuseum Württemberg / Hendrik Zwietasch, CC BY 4.0 Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first […]

This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women’s magazine. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

February 23, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Why the Northeast blizzard’s snow is ideal for snowballs and snowmen School is out as heavy, wet snow blankets parts of the Northeast. Though it will be a pain to shovel, it makes for perfect snowballs and the most structurally sound snowmen By Stephanie […]

The US added a record-breaking amount of energy storage in 2025, according to a new solar industry report published Monday. The growth of battery storage across the US is a rare success story for clean energy during the renewables-hostile second Trump administration—and also a sign of how utilities may be thinking about reorienting electric grids […]

Anthropic pointed its most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at production open-source codebases and found a plethora of security holes: more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities that had survived decades of expert review and millions of hours of fuzzing, with each candidate vetted through internal and external security review before disclosure. Fifteen days later, the […]

Josephina Finch says the surgery left her with a “gaping wound”. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Chicago has tens of thousands of surveillance cameras—up to 45,000, by some estimates.  That’s among the highest numbers per capita in the US. Chicago boasts one of the largest license plate reader systems in the country, and the ability to access audio and video surveillance from independent agencies such as the Chicago Public Schools, the […]

February 23, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Poetry was humanity’s first language technology. AI is the next Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Eric Sullivan A […]

Michelle Chan / Financial Times: Data center developers are seeking credit ratings even while facilities are under construction to unlock new capital; S&P, Moody’s, and others expand coverage  —  Agencies are rushing to rate the debt of projects still under construction  —  Data centre developers are seeking credit ratings … Source link Please enable JavaScript […]

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is again turning up the pressure on prediction market operator Kalshi, this time tying its trademark concerns directly to March Madness, the association’s signature men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The NCAA claims that Kalshi has used its name, marks and event branding in ways that suggest an official link. […]

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. Let’s start off with a vaccine 180. In a sudden turn of events last Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to review Moderna’s new mRNA flu vaccine, according to the company. […]

NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April. Although March 6 had been tentatively planned as the launch date, the US space agency revealed that a problem with the rocket has caused further delay. According to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the […]

Jobs are available on the icy continent for chefs, plumbers, carpenters and even hairdressers. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant Moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. The space agency said Sunday it’s targeting Tuesday for the slow, 4-mile (6.4-kilometer) trek across Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting. NASA had barely finished a repeat […]

A winter bomb cyclone is expected to bring blizzard conditions across parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through southeastern New England Sunday night into Monday morning. But what, exactly, is a blizzard? A blizzard doesn’t always mean “a lot of snow,” though it can certainly bring heavy snowfalls, as this storm is expected […]

What Is New Hire Orientation And How To Get It Right? Starting a new job is often an exciting chapter in an employee’s professional journey. However, the enthusiasm of a new beginning can soon be replaced with uncertainty and confusion if proper steps are not taken. New hires need clear guidance during their first days […]

Traditional software governance often uses static compliance checklists, quarterly audits and after-the-fact reviews. But this method can’t keep up with AI systems that change in real time. A machine learning (ML) model might retrain or drift between quarterly operational syncs. This means that, by the time an issue is discovered, hundreds of bad decisions could […]

Public health experts and former federal staffers are uneasy over National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya’s rising influence over U.S. health policy as he temporarily takes on the added role of leading the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Trump administration announced the leadership shake-up this week, with former interim CDC… […]

In June 2025, a year-long investigation exposed an illegal trade smuggling timber from protected areas in the Congolese rainforest into neighbouring Burundi. Award-winning Burundian journalist Arthur Bizimana and his collaborator Martin Leku, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, risked their safety by travelling deep into the rainforest — the world’s second-largest — to gather […]

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. […]

If you’re the kind of person who gets nervous or squeamish at the doctor’s office, you might find that collecting your own samples doesn’t freak you out as much as someone in a white coat doing it. Depending on where you live and your transportation situation, at-home STD tests might be more accessible than visiting […]

The mission to the far side of the Moon and back will be postponed after problems with were spotted with its rocket, a Nasa official said. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ‘soup‘ of unimaginably dense plasma. In a breakthrough experiment, researchers have found the first evidence that this exotic primordial goo did actually slosh and swirl like soup. In slightly more scientific terms, this gooey soup is called quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. It was the […]

Celebrating International Mother Language Day 2026: Why It’s Important To Promote Multilingual Competence Through Education As International Mother Language Day 2026 approaches, we are once again reminded of the importance of empowering individuals to learn in their language of choice and not in an established lingua franca, most commonly English. This year’s theme, “Youth voices […]

The native species was driven to extinction by sailors in the 1800s. Now, 158 juvenile giant tortoises have been reintroduced to the island. Source link Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

February 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA reveals new problem with Artemis II rocket, further delaying launch Just a day after NASA set a March 6 target date for its upcoming moon mission, the agency’s head announced it will roll back the rocket from the pad entirely By Claire Cameron […]

Each year, the world produces upward of 450 million metric tons of plastic waste — far more than the combined weight of every person on Earth, according to Our World in Data. A 2023 study in Yonsei Medical Journal found that this pollution may be a growing hazard to humans and most other living creatures, […]

February 21, 2026 5 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Italy promised durable Olympic medals. Science had other plans. A small design flaw in the medals for the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina turned a durability promise into a very public stress test By Eric Sullivan edited by Andrea Thompson Italy’s state mint […]

February 21, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm ‘An AlphaFold 4’—scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results By Ewen Callaway & Nature magazine The AI tool includes predictions […]

On February 5 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful artificial intelligence model. Among the model’s new features is the ability to coordinate teams of autonomous agents—multiple AIs that divide up the work and complete it in parallel. Twelve days after Opus 4.6’s release, the company dropped Sonnet 4.6, a cheaper model that nearly […]

If a headphone jack is a must-have on your next phone, Motorola’s Moto G Stylus 5G 2025 strikes the best balance of performance, aesthetics, features, and price. Not only does it have the jack, but it also stores a stylus inside, an embarrassment for any other company that cited space-saving reasons to nix the port. […]

February 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Incredible image shows what 2026’s first solar eclipse looked like from space A satellite captured a recent “ring of fire” eclipse from a stunning new angle By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron The “ring of fire” solar eclipse on February 17 ESA/Royal […]

Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: OpenAI’s $100 Billion Funding Round, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent […]

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The remaining 0.1 percent is conventional matter. This galaxy, located about 300 million light-years away, is practically invisible. Only four globular […]

A massive illegal gambling crackdown in Hitchcock, Texas, has resulted in 33 arrests, the seizure of hundreds of gaming machines, and the arrest of the city’s sitting mayor after investigators uncovered what authorities describe as an organized criminal operation spread across the city. Investigators with the Galveston County Organized Crime Task Force carried out 21 […]

An archaeological site in the Middle East now stands as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of Africa, a distinction that has been set in stone by snails and ancient sediments. The site of ‘Ubeidiya, located just south of the Sea of Galilee in the Jordan Valley, has received a revised age […]

A broken tooth remains lodged in the face of a duck-billed dinosaur that died 66 million years ago. That fragment, preserved in the skull of Edmontosaurus, has now been identified as belonging to Tyrannosaurus, the top predator of its time. In a new study published in PeerJ, researchers report that the fossil preserves rare evidence […]

OpenClaw, the open source AI agent that excels at autonomous tasks on computers and which users can communicate with through popular messaging apps, has undoubtedly become a phenomena since its launch in November 2025, and especially in the last few months. Lured by the promise of greater business automation, solopreneurs and employees of large enterprises […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reportedly mulling whether more prescription drugs should be sold over the counter (OTC) at pharmacies. In an interview on Wednesday, FDA commissioner Martin Makary told CNBC that “everything should be over the counter” except drugs that are deemed unsafe or addictive or that require clinical monitoring. Makary said […]

At least one Republican lawmaker is formally pushing back on President Trump’s effort to boost a controversial herbicide, glyphosate, that’s reviled by supporters of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. Trump this week stoked MAHA fury by issuing an executive order that seeks to “ensure an adequate supply” of glyphosate as a national security […]

On Being A Lifelong Learner: Meaning, Definition, Examples, Misconceptions Lifelong learning used to be the domain of academics and romantics. But these days, the meaning of being a lifelong learner has changed, reflecting why it is now a practical necessity for all. A lifelong learner is an individual who consistently pursues new knowledge, skills, and […]