El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate…
It’s not entirely accurate to say that you’re more likely to die in a car accident than in a plane crash. Chances are,…
This year’s Sierra snowpack is looking a lot like 1983’s, and that was a year of flooding and mudslide disasters. A…
Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known…
The aggressive efforts of social media platforms to police language have spawned a new lexicon meant to evade censors.
Passwords are both annoying to use and vulnerable to hackers. Fortunately, big tech is moving to support stronger, easier-to-use…
Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to…
China has invested massively in its space capabilities in recent years and is now a major competitor with the US. But according…
Working with underwater robots, scientists show how deep sea mountains and fast currents between Antarctica and South America…
Legislation meant to improve cybersecurity could be difficult to implement and might create incentives for riskier digital…
A scholar explains how artificial intelligence systems can revolutionize the way students learn.
Antibiotic resistance has contributed to millions of deaths worldwide. Research suggests that any bacteria can develop antibiotic…
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer and Europa Clipper missions will arrive at Jupiter in the 2030s and provide researchers with…
Research has examined how ultraprocessed foods can contribute to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mood disorders.…
Language model AIs are smooth talkers, but you shouldn’t rely on them to make important decisions. That’s because they…
Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the…
Many older people tend to trim their social circles and focus their social efforts on family and close friends. New research…
Two food scientists, an entomologist, an anthropologist, a veterinarian and a historian walk into a bar (of chocolate) and…
In health care crises, researchers can avoid waiting for clinical trial results by using data from health care systems to…