Humanity has thrived thanks to a stable cryosphere, but burning fossil fuels has increased the risk of “accelerating and partly irreversible” harm to the planet’s cold places.
After its latest device struggled to perform, brain-computer interface startup Synchon halted clinical trials. The company says it will upgrade the implant’s hardware and is at work on a new device.
These Arctic currents have never broken down so early in the season. Combined with an unprecedented El Niño, the outcomes aren’t easy to predict.
Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.
Amid rising electricity costs, Michiganders decisively voted for a ballot proposition to curtail the ability of utilities to spend on elections—a move utilities say limits their freedom of speech.
Researchers in Germany gradually reversed human cells’ ages by decades. By doing so, they could track the de-aging process in a way previous rejuvenation experiments could not.
NASA announced the development of an experimental aircraft designed to explore new flight capabilities, although details about its design and operation remain under wraps.
The promising candidate contains roughly 2 billion times the sun’s mass in hydrogen, yet appears to have no stars. Studying it could help answer questions that have vexed astronomers for years.
The key to the movement of these flexible robots is the algae’s photosynthetic capabilities.
A group of young mathematicians found the solution to the long unanswered conjecture, first inspired by juggling, through randomness and friendship.
Owning a home is billed as a way to build wealth, but amid climate-related disasters, for many, it's beginning to feel like a trap.
Tesla’s biggest failure is the second massive EV to get the axe within the last year, while smaller vehicles are proliferating. It could be a huge benefit for the US battery supply chain.
More than 80 percent of congressional candidates backed by the pro-science PAC 314 Action won, including Michigan senator-elect and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed.
Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of the marine mammals.
An extremely rare matter-decay event opens up new possibilities for researching the physical world on scales 100 billion times smaller than an atom.
The company’s cofounder recently convinced the Trump administration to support an initiative to gather DNA samples from endangered species.
A new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it’s still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide.
The 3,200-pound satellite is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere later this week with a wide reentry zone covering parts of Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and South America.
The 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite is a “Rosetta Stone for Mars,” preserving clues about how the Martian environment has changed since the solar system formed.
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.