
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 19 hours ago
"The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the circuitry responsible for empathy and perspective-taking." Shonna Waters, PhD...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 20 hours ago
The olive ridley sea turtle eggs will incubate at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.

Ars Technica - 1 day 20 hours ago
Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 20 hours ago
Scientists say our quiet star has the potential for a superflare. What happens the day it fires?...

Mother Jones - 1 day 21 hours ago
This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super El Ni o by February, according to estimates by climate scientists. The toll is on top of the early deaths resulting from temperatures […]...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours ago
Like many college professors today, Sarah S. Richardson has seen AI-hallucinated citations in work submitted by her students. But she was surprised when an editor recently contacted her about a hallucinated citation involving her own work. A March 31 email from the editor in chief of Disability Studies Quarterly explained Richardson was one of six … Continue reading Above and beyond: An editor wanted authors to know they'd been falsely cited...

Ars Technica - 2 days 42 min ago
NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.

The Atlantic - 2 days 45 min ago
And in search of a political wave to catch...

Australian Geographic - 2 days 1 hour ago
Welcome to Wild Wins where we share positive stories from the natural world, proudly supported by Coral Expeditions, Australia's pioneering cruise line. The post Wild Wins Vol. 8 appeared first on Australian Geographic .

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
The people of northern Virginia have been living with data centers for many years. But even they are resisting new developments. And they have specific wishes for how to regulate them.

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
Understanding what a control' is can help you decide for yourself how insightful new studies are.

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
The early universe was kind of like a big game of musical chairs scientists are figuring out how many particles were able to find seats' to understand the cosmos.

Newser - 2 days 6 hours ago
Dogs may not grasp grammar, but they seem to zero in on speech patterns the same way humans do. A new study in Science suggests canines have a "consonant bias" they pay more attention to consonants than vowels when we're talking to them. To figure this out, Hungarian researchers attached...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 6 hours ago
Since writing a book on the night sky (The Wild Dark), I can’t help looking up. I’ve slept outside most nights since the end of February, more comfortable falling asleep under stars than in a bed. The other night, I woke startled at the brightness of the Millky Way, thinking it was a wildfire. The […] The post Make Prayers to the Sky appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 2 days 8 hours ago
Google's latest moon shot is literally leaving Earth: It's about to test an AI "data center" in orbit. On Thursday, a satellite dubbed MVP is slated to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California into space, where it will run Google's Gemini AI on four custom chips powered by...

Nature - 2 days 14 hours ago
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 25 September 2026...

Nature - 2 days 14 hours ago
The detection effort enlisted roughly 950 AI agents that spent more than 21 hours combing through DNA sequence databases.

Nature - 2 days 14 hours ago
Mark Chen discusses how the Hugging Face cybersecurity incident prompted a pivot to safety and giving AI models a sense of 'taste'.