
Ars Technica - 17 hours 51 min ago
The Japanese technique of burning wood surfaces creates a protective carbonized layer in bioarchitecture.

Ars Technica - 18 hours 21 min ago
Information from sensors is transmitted using neural-style activity spikes.

Popular Science - 18 hours 21 min ago
From dishwashers to lawnmowers to roof tiles. The post 5 home innovations that improved our lives in 2025 appeared first on Popular Science .

New York Times - 18 hours 44 min ago
A heritage of dark sky preservation means residents of Flagstaff welcome the season's longer nights with prolonged views of the stars.

New Scientist - 20 hours 21 min ago
It took 125 years, but in 2025 a team of mathematicians discovered the solution to a long-puzzling problem about the equations that govern the behaviour of particles in a fluid...

GeekSpin - 20 hours 51 min ago
Russia just announced plans to build a nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036. Not orbiting it. On it. Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, signed a deal with aerospace manufacturer Lavochkin Association to construct the facility, which will power their lunar program, including rovers, an observatory, and a joint Russian-Chinese International Lunar Research Station […] Read the original article here: Russia plans nuclear power plant on the moon by 2036...

The Conversation - 21 hours 13 min ago
Levees protect more than 7 million buildings in the US today, yet they got a D-plus grade in 2025. A new study found 487 cases where rising water overtopped levees in the past 15 years.

The Conversation - 21 hours 33 min ago
Managing fire risk is about more than regulations and rules. It's also about caring for neighbors and taking steps on your own property and in your community to help keep neighbors safe.

The Conversation - 21 hours 46 min ago
AI systems began a major shift in 2025 from content creators and chatbots to agents capable of using other software tools and acting on their own.

Ars Technica - 21 hours 51 min ago
Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore...

IEEE Spectrum - 23 hours 21 min ago
Powering the AI data center boom dominated the conversation in the global energy sector in 2025. Governments are racing to develop the most advanced AI models, and data center developers are building as fast as they can. But no one is going to get very far without finding ways to generate and move more electricity to these power guzzlers. Spectrum's most popular energy stories in 2025 centered around that theme. Readers were particularly interested in stories about next-generation nuclear power...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 21 min ago
Christina had tried diet ing and exercise before. The weight always came off but then crept back on, especially after she gave birth to her son in 2022. She had hoped that a new class of weight-loss drugs might finally offer something different. Obesity treatments such as Wegovy and Zepbound had just arrived on the scene, helping people slim down with unprecedented ease. But the price tag of these GLP-1 drugs put them out of reach. Christina's health insurance wouldn't cover the cost. Desperate...

BBC - 1 day 55 min ago
BBC Climate Editor Justin Rowlatt travels to Eryri - also known as Snowdonia - to find a rare plant.

Wired - 1 day 3 hours ago
Today's global coral bleaching events are the worst kind of climate warning.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 3 hours ago
The BMJ has retracted a paper on a clinical trial of different methods of vascular access during cardiac arrest after an expert raised concerns about the randomization in the trial. The study, published in July 2024, reports the results of a trial comparing intravenous and intraosseous vascular access for treating people who experienced cardiac arrest. … Continue reading The BMJ retracts clinical trial for severe' discrepancies in randomization...

Nature - 1 day 13 hours ago
If you've hatched a New Year plan to move abroad, improve your presentations or chase happiness as a 20-something researcher, you'll find advice aplenty in these books.

Nature - 1 day 13 hours ago
AI technologies need to be safe and transparent. There are few, if any, benefits from being outside efforts to achieve this.

Newser - 1 day 22 hours ago
A long, stony line on the seabed off western France is turning out to be a lot more than a geological quirk. Marine archaeologists say a 394-foot structure found off the Ile de Sein in Brittany is a man-made wall dating to roughly 5,000 BC, making it the largest...

Wired - 2 days 1 hour ago
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don't.