Computer scientists are rushing to tame AI’s voracious appetite for energy
As I sip coffee in my Berlin apartment and fire a question at Google’s AI chatbot Gemini, it’s easy not to think about the energy
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Hubble Spies Faint Irregular Galaxy
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the faint glow of the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017.
Rise in cancer in younger adults may be explained by faster ‘biological aging,’ early study hints
Younger generations may be aging faster than their predecessors, and this may be linked to a rise in early-onset cancers, a new study suggests. There
Bullseye! Enormous ‘bow and arrow’ galaxy is unlike anything radio astronomers have ever seen — Space photo of the week
Quick facts What it is: RAD-Bow-And-Arrow Radio Galaxy Where it is: 2 billion light-years from Earth When it was shared: June 22, 2026 The universe
Our brains aren’t wired to handle this much bad news. But ‘looking away is not the fix,’ expert says.
During several recent conversations, people have told me that they’ve stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not because nothing was happening, but because everything
‘The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance’: Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, new models hint
Earth may survive the fiery death of the sun, even as our star engulfs the innermost planets, a new study using state-of-the-art models suggests. The
Computer scientists are rushing to tame tame AI’s voracious appetite for energy
As I sip coffee in my Berlin apartment and fire a question at Google’s AI chatbot Gemini, it’s easy not to think about the energy
Why does metal stick together in space?
If you push two metal plates together on Earth, nothing happens. But if you take those same plates into the vacuum of space, they can
Going Low and Slow in Testing
NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, during testing focused on lower-speed and altitude flight conditions
Climate change is driving capuchin monkey mothers to abandon their infants
Plants, insects, and larger animals, like the forest’s white-faced capuchin monkeys, are well adapted to these changes. But in 2015, during an abnormally severe drought
‘The Romans were probably never going to go away’: In new ‘Almost History’ podcast, listen to how history might have played out if Carthage had defeated the Roman Republic
A new episode of ” Almost History ,” the alternate-history podcast from All About History , explores one of the biggest “what-ifs” of the ancient
IBM creates world’s first sub-1nm computer chip — cramming 100 billion transistors into a tiny fingernail-sized space
For the first time, scientists can develop computer chips with transistors smaller than 1 nanometer. The new “NanoStack” architecture that has made this possible could
Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin
This week, we’ve taken one tantalizing step closer to finding out if there really was life on Mars, after NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovered the highest
AI images are more convincing than ever — infiltrating journals and undermining trust in science
A photograph of Earth glowing in deep space, the moon’s cratered horizon stretching across its foreground, caught many people’s eyes in April 2026. Astronauts captured