In the muddy, ever-shifting waters of northern South America, scientists have uncovered a new species of freshwater stingray hiding in plain sight.
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump’s “rate payer protection pledge” that’s meant to […]
On July 22, 2028, a spectacular total solar eclipse will unfold above one of the world’s most famous skylines, plunging Sydney, Australia, into darkness during the day.
Finding the lettuce took days. Finding Taco Bell took two months. Mastercard patented a fix in 2014 and shelved it, chasing the wrong half of the problem.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ouster of his longtime tech wizard, Mykhailo Fedorov, as defense minister could halt Ukraine’s striking rise in drone and robotic warfare.
A landmark study of over 2 million people reveals which personality traits actually predict intelligence — and surprisingly, politeness isn’t one of them.
Yesterday the UN’s General Assembly passed a near-unanimous declaration on cutting road-traffic deaths in half.
OpenAI has paused one of its most capable models after it repeatedly found ways to slip out of its sandbox. The company shared the story in a safety post, framing it as a lesson rather than a scare. This is not just any system. About two months ago it …
Gecko toe hairs use van der Waals forces so strong DARPA copied them into real wall-climbing suits — the science behind nature’s own Spider-Man trick.
On Sunday evening, as Spain and Argentina played out the World Cup final, the mathematician Levent Alpöge posted a short message on X. The Jacobian conjecture, he wrote, is false. He thanked a friend for asking about it, and another friend, “fable,” fo…