Category: Science

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable

OpenAI has published a new paper identifying why ChatGPT is prone to making things up. Unfortunately, the problem may be unfixable.

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, using the Rosetta stone. This ushered in a new

Tweety McTreason’s announcement this week linking Tylenol with autism could play a role in ongoing legal cases against the company that makes it.

Meteorites – the rocks that hurtle from outer space and make it to Earth, get a moment to shine when collectors gather in Cincinnati to

Sept. 27, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over

We’ve wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same

Just two decades after astronomers discovered the first exoplanet, NASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 alien worlds. The total will rise even quicker as

This stunning Earth image taken from the International Space Station looks at a large lake in eastern Kazakhstan with golden sunglint: Lake Balkhash. It is

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point

A London-based startup has created the world’s first full-stack quantum computer using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form.

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth’s mysterious “halo”.

The map, spanning 4,000 light-years from the sun in all directions, combines a chart of space dust with the effects of a rare type of