A DNA analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair shows that he likely had lead poisoning. | Continue reading
ChatGPT's latest upgrade means the voice assistant can now respond to audio, text and visual inputs in real time. The new chatbot, named ChatGPT-4o, will be rolled out to alpha testers in the coming weeks. | Continue reading
Using a clever laser technique, scientists have squished pairs of atoms closer together than ever before, revealing some truly mind-boggling quantum effects. | Continue reading
Japan has announced plans to add fin whales — the second-largest animal on Earth — to its list of commercial whaling species, which currently includes Bryde's, sei and minke whales. | Continue reading
Tree rings suggest the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years, with temperatures exceeding those of the coldest summer in the same period by 7 degrees Fahrenheit (3.9 Celsius). | Continue reading
The desktop-sized LPU100 eschews traditional electronics and qubits in favor of lasers, and it can reportedly perform complex AI calculations in nanoseconds. | Continue reading
An enigmatic L-shaped structure found underground near the pyramids at Giza may be an entrance to a mysterious deeper feature below it. | Continue reading
Scientists have discovered a bizarre, red-glowing exoplanet named TOI-6713.01, which is loaded with active volcanoes and may be 'melting from within.' | Continue reading
Three U.S. hospital patients contracted drug-resistant infections in Mexico in 2022 and were still being treated as of March 2024. | Continue reading
Auroras occur when charged solar particles bash into Earth's magnetic field and funnel toward the poles. The types of atoms these particles hit determines the color of light emitted. | Continue reading
An immense geomagnetic storm caused auroras as far south as Florida for the first time in 21 years after the sun unleashed a wave of solar flares and at least seven coronal mass ejections at Earth. | Continue reading
Between Friday (May 10) and Sunday (May 12), people across the world were treated to stunning aurora displays as Earth's magnetic field experienced its biggest disturbance since October 2003. The supercharged storm also messed with satellites and caused power grid irregularities. | Continue reading
Rick Slayman was the first person in the world to receive this pioneering surgery in March 2024. | Continue reading
Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed. | Continue reading
China’s supersized superconducting chip looks to match the performance of industry leaders like IBM and will be used to help scale up the performance of quantum computers globally. | Continue reading
MIT scientists devise three abstraction libraries that can be combined with AI systems to improve their reasoning and contextual awareness in programming, strategic planning and robotics. | Continue reading
It's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do earthquakes happen in the middle of tectonic plates? | Continue reading
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The massive caldera of Turkey's Mount Nemrut volcano is split in half, with one side made of solidified lava flows and the other half a deep crater lake. Covered in snow, the summit scene looks like the yin-yang symbol when viewed from above. | Continue reading
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of a carbon-rich atmosphere around the hellish world 55 Cancri e. This marks the best evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet. | Continue reading
TKTKBirman and Burmese cats live the longest, while Sphynx cats die the youngest, a giant new study of U.K. cats found. | Continue reading
New research shows how disruptions to binary star systems could be the key to detecting space's most confounding substance — dark matter. | Continue reading
From planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien life. | Continue reading
A new space photo captures "God's Hand", a cometary globule in the Gum Nebula, where stars are being born. | Continue reading
Spacecraft have visited and photographed the far side of the moon, but why can't we see it from Earth? | Continue reading
Birds are some of the most colorful animals on Earth, with a palette of rainbow tones to feast your eyes on. Here are our picks for some of our most flamboyant feathered friends. | Continue reading
Ray-Ban smart glasses will now use Meta AI virtual assistant software so that wearers can speak with their smart glasses and ask questions about what they're looking at. | Continue reading
This curiously named sea-dweller lives along the Pacific coast, eats squid eggs and fights by opening its mouth wide. | Continue reading
Genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may help Papua New Guineans in the lowlands fight off infection, while mutations to red blood cells may help highlanders live at altitude. | Continue reading
In this excerpt from his new book "What if Fungi Win?" microbiologist and immunologist Arturo Casadevall examines the rise of the deadly yeast Candida auris. | Continue reading
Did the budget-friendly Amazfit Active smartwatch manage to impress us with its performance? | Continue reading
Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D. | Continue reading
Infinite mirrors are a fun party trick, but the physics behind this phenomenon explains why it may not be true. | Continue reading
Officials were alerted to the alleged crime and successfully recovered the artifacts. | Continue reading
An odd earthquake swarm has struck the region between the Czech Republic and Germany, far from any tectonic plate boundary. | Continue reading
A sunspot so big it rivals the gigantic sunspot responsible for the Carrington Event in 1859 has unleashed another X-class solar flare, triggering radio blackouts on Earth. | Continue reading
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The planet's magnetic field may have collapsed around 600 million years ago, enabling a major oxygenation event and perhaps supercharging evolution. | Continue reading
Atlantic currents slowed dramatically during the Younger Dryas period. By reconstructing those ancient ocean conditions, scientists think they can forecast changes over the next century. | Continue reading
NASA's plan to build a train track on the moon is part of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which aims to develop "science fiction-like" projects for future space exploration. | Continue reading
Aurora-hunting photographers were surprised to spot a misshaped SpaceX spiral with ethereal horns over Europe during a recent geomagnetic storm. | Continue reading
Dice snakes theatrically stage their own deaths, using blood and feces to convince predators they've shuffled off their mortal coils. | Continue reading
The forensic facial reconstruction is based on a precise 3D model of the skull created with medical scans. | Continue reading
A new simulation reveals how Australia's first inhabitants migrated across Sahul, before it became modern-day Australia. | Continue reading
Save 20% on these Blueair air purifiers at Amazon. | Continue reading
The newly-discovered cells help shed light on how the liver repairs itself after damage. | Continue reading
COVID-19 vaccine development paves way to a new class of cancer immunotherapy. | Continue reading
Human societies that experience downturns do a better job of recovering from later disasters, new research finds. | Continue reading