Category: Science

Tristan Buckmaster , a mathematician at New York University, had just spent months working on what he believed could be a life-defining mathematical proof. Then

The world’s oldest known habitual drug use can be traced to an island in Indonesia, where ice age hunter-gatherers sucked on betel nuts — palm

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

By studying chickadee cognition in the wild, researchers learned smarter birds stay smart in old age, produce more young and have better gut bacteria.

The moon may have formed in as few as five hours after the cataclysmic collision between Earth and a long-lost protoplanet, new simulations suggest. The

The patient: A 55-year-old man in Bangladesh The symptoms: The man went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain that he said began five

In this excerpt from ” The Carbon Wave ” (MIT Press, 2026), author Leah Stokes , an associate professor of environmental politics at the University

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One

Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it’s conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in vampires, karma and

On the morning of Tuesday, September 8, mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction, running on an

An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating part of an ancient soundscape.

AI safety monitoring can fail when an AI’s reasoning is the main clue that something has gone wrong, new research suggests.

In the event of a global catastrophe, such as a nuclear war, an enormous volcanic eruption or large asteroid strike, the best place to be

Two distinct climate regimes that could trigger runaway methane emissions are emerging in Siberia due to Arctic warming, new research suggests. While western Siberia is