Brains break and repair DNA to grow
Newborn mice neurons can snap both DNA strands to migrate, then repair the breaks within a day. The process may be a normal part of
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AI companies don’t want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.
Who is responsible for AI’s output? Artificial intelligence (AI) companies like OpenAI maintain that they are not. In fact, their terms and conditions in 2023
Scientists infected a ‘vagina on a chip’ with gonorrhea — then cured it with a new antibiotic found by AI
With the aid of AI, scientists have identified a potential new antibiotic to treat gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that’s increasingly resistant to drugs.
New chip harnesses quantum computing’s biggest weakness — and tries to turn it into a strength
Researchers have created a new chip that turns one of quantum computing’s biggest frailties into a programmable feature. They say this first-of-its-kind experiment could carry
Euclid Sees Heart of Milky Way
This image by ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid (with color added using ground-based images) provides an earlier snapshot of a region of our galaxy that
After 80 Years, Mathematicians Give Famed ‘Erdős Method’ an Upgrade
In 1947, Paul Erdős, the itinerant Hungarian mathematician, introduced what would become one of math’s most powerful tools. He wanted to prove that a certain
‘It sounds so impossible’: Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in. Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science. On this
Ancient empires quiz: Can you match these lands to the historical powers that ruled them?
Empires have shaped human history, often growing from a single city or cultural group into territories spanning continents. Some empires rose through conquest, and others
China’s top-secret ‘dragon’ space plane just released another unidentified object over Earth
China’s top-secret space plane just released another unknown object over Earth, raising concerns about exactly what the mysterious vehicle is up to. The clandestine spacecraft
How big a cybersecurity threat are the latest AI models, really?
New AI models are accelerating the game of cat-and-mouse as cybersecurity experts try to keep ahead of would-be hackers. An AI expert explains the risks.
Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a gene to endure starvation
The enormous deep-sea cousins of your garden’s pill bugs can go five years without food. A gene they pilfered from bacteria may be part of
Early Homo sapiens may have lived in rainforests, new clues suggest — and it could overturn our understanding of human evolution
Nearly 70,000 years ago, modern humans created stunning rock art in an unexpected place: the tropical Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The finding, announced in January
Socotra Archipelago: The Yemeni islands covered with astonishing cucumber, bottle and dragon’s blood trees
QUICK FACTS Name: Socotra Archipelago Location: Northwest Indian Ocean, off the coasts of Yemen and Somalia Coordinates: 12.48, 53.85 Why it’s incredible: It is a
Water shortages could prevent the US from mining more lithium, deepening reliance on foreign imports
Growing water scarcity could hamper the expansion of lithium mining in the U.S., deepening its reliance on foreign imports over the coming decades, a new