Powerful AI tools available to anyone with an internet connection make it easy to impersonate someone’s voice, increasing…
The drinking water systems serving over 70 million people may not meet newly proposed water quality standards. It could…
Astronomers have long known where water is first formed in the universe and how it ends up on planets, asteroids and comets.…
Searching the web with ChatGPT is like talking to an expert – if you’re OK getting a mix of fact and fiction. But even…
Aging is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases. Figuring out what influences longevity and how to identify rapid…
Another atmospheric river is hitting the state, raising flood risks as rain falls on deep snowpack. Rain on snow is also…
Time-lapse animations that once took days to create are now easy to build with publicly available satellite images and free…
Researchers explore what happens when ants can’t properly use smell to detect friend from foe.
The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
Almost everybody uses the internet just about every day. But do you really know what the internet is?
This particularly physical kind of philanthropy caught on in the mid-20th century.
Honeybees possess one of the most complex examples of nonhuman communication. New research suggests that it is learned and…
Pi gets a lot of attention this time of year, but there are plenty of other mathematical constants just as deserving of…
With more than 5,000 known exoplanets, astronomers are shifting their focus from discovering additional distant worlds to…
Twitter and Meta are looking to make money from protecting users’ identities. This raises questions about collective security,…
Following the controversial births of the first gene-edited babies, a major focus of the Third International Summit on Human…
Raw flour at the store still contains live microorganisms. And while cooking can kill the fungi, it doesn’t destroy any…
Making sure RNA molecules are in the right place at the right time in a cell is critical to development and normal function.…
Women are severely underrepresented in tech. Strength in numbers – communities for women and women mentoring women –…
Many telescopes use the radio spectrum to learn about the cosmos. Just as human development leads to more light pollution,…