
Los Angeles Times - 16 hours 28 min ago
As LAUSD starts moratorium, there's not much data on what AI does to kids. The little information that is available doesn't look good...

New York Times - 16 hours 43 min ago
Researchers say the planet might have shrunk by as much as 14.5 miles nearly a percent off of its current size since its formation 4.5 billion years ago...

Science Alert - 17 hours 29 min ago
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Newser - 18 hours 39 min ago
A famous Star Trek battle trick turns out to be better physics than the show ever claimed. As Popular Science explains, Brazilian physicist N ckolas de Aguiar Alves has shown that the "Picard Maneuver" would work like a charm. As fans might know, the name stems from a first-season episode of...

Popular Mechanics - 18 hours 59 min ago
Although predicting the timing of seismic catastrophes remains tricky, these geophysicists' algorithm could help communities located near subduction zones.

The Conversation - 19 hours 21 min ago
Scientists recreated cosmic rays in a massive underground particle collider.

The Conversation - 19 hours 47 min ago
Wildfire strategy tends to break into three distinct camps today, each focusing heavily on one approach over the others. Successful management requires them all.

GeekSpin - 21 hours 28 min ago
For thousands of years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has been widely regarded as a monumental tomb built for Pharaoh Khufu. But a new theory is challenging that familiar explanation, suggesting the ancient wonder may have been designed to preserve something far more unusual: knowledge of the heavens. An independent researcher claims the pyramid's precise […] Read the original article here: Researcher says the Great Pyramid is a message, not a tomb...

How It Works - 22 hours 57 min ago
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New York Times - 23 hours 26 min ago
Wildfires burning in southwestern France this summer.

NPR - 23 hours 45 min ago
NASA has been moving engineers out of their labs as a way to reduce waste. But the moves may be limiting the agency's ability to make spacecraft.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 29 min ago
On the second Tuesday of October, a small subset of humanity celebrates Ada Lovelace Day in honour of the 19th Century computing pioneer. There are film screenings and museum visits, and bloggers are encouraged to write about women's achievements in STEM. Most distinctive of the events is a Wikipedia Editathon to set the record straight […] The post Will the real women in science please stand up appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 1 day 2 hours ago
Archaeologists in Peru say they've hit on something they'd never seen before at the ancient Chimu capital of Chan Chan: an elite tomb complex left untouched by looters and a conquering Incan army. Buried beneath the sprawling pre-Inca adobe city near Trujillo, the 600-year-old mausoleum, dating to immediately before or...

Nature - 1 day 8 hours ago
Fresh evidence reveals that the interplay of several factors could affect the ability of these trees to grow.

Nature - 1 day 8 hours ago
Philanthropists are stepping up support for research in a country where scientists have relied on the government alone for funding.

Nature - 1 day 8 hours ago
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The Independent - 1 day 20 hours ago
There will be five celestial events this autumn to look out for from a supermoon to meteor showers...

Mother Jones - 1 day 20 hours ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and BPR, a public radio station serving western North Carolina. Wendell Berry made his choices and stuck to them. He did not have a computer or a smartphone. He wrote more than 50 books of […]...

Wired - 1 day 22 hours ago
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI and it's driving the data center buildout.

Wired - 1 day 22 hours ago
"There's no reason we can't think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts."...