Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it without even knowing why. Inside the creative science that’s transforming your ...

A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was made possible by real-time control of the force fields ...

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Before Sam Kirchner vanished, before the San Francisco Police Department began to warn that he could be armed and dangerous, before OpenAI locked down its offices over the potential threat, those who ...

Bounties as high as $100,000 are being offered for the murders of dozens of Israeli researchers, including some in the US, on the website of a hateful anti-Zionist group. “The Punishment for Justice ...

Seattle just elected a communist as mayor! At least that is what the aging, addled president of the United States believes. On Monday, President Donald Trump characterized Mayor-elect Katie Wilson as ...

When Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel addressed the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January 2021 — virtually, along with the rest of the participants who tuned in at the height of the Covid-19 ...

The fate of the world could rest on ATLAS’ shoulders. Contrary to allegations that 31/ATLAS is potentially hostile alien tech, the Manhattan-sized comet could provide potentially Earth-saving intel.

Chopping down rainforests is daft. The social costs of clearing a typical patch of Brazilian Amazon are perhaps 30 times the benefits of rearing cows on it, by one estimate from 2023. The problem is, ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

To entice students to broaden their reading horizons and check out the wide array of books in translation, World Kid Lit Month, the annual September celebration of international children’s literature, ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.