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We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The researchers set out…
The Revolution Wind farm was already 80 percent complete before the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sent it a letter Friday to “halt all ongoing activities” to address purported national security concerns and “interference” with other potential uses for …
FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees received emails notifying them that they’d been put on administrative leave…
Amazon’s unproven Project Kuiper satellites will be put to work next year, supplying internet access to rural Australians. The retail giant announced an agreement with Australia’s state-owned National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) on Tuesday to provide s…
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
Let’s be real: the internet is full of a lot of the same stuff. From derivative content on social media to websites that all look the same, what was once a portal to new worlds and experiences has been feeling a bit dry recently, like I’ve seen all this stuff…
Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape the company’s hardware, features, and AI services. The long-term partnership was announced today at the Made by Google event, with Curry joining the company as a “performance advisor” for Google…
A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
In 1985, the films 'Real Genius,' 'Weird Science,' and 'My Science Project' were somehow all released within seven days of each other.
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
A new paper from Bangor University outlines the "bizarre phenomenon" known as the transparency paradox: that transparency is needed to foster public trust in science, but being transparent about science, medicine and government can also reduce trust. The pape…
Seven volcanoes in the area erupted simultaneously, and for the first time in almost 300 years.
The nations of the world have been on the precipice of reaching a global agreement to curb plastic pollution for a few years now. Delegates from 184 governments met in Geneva this month to try to hammer out a final treaty, but in the end, they walked away wit…
Britain's space agency is set to be scrapped - a scientist fears the UK space sector could fall behind as a result
Susan Monarez is reportedly being pushed out for not supporting RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda.
Science Saru's adaptation of the manga's exorcism song led to the studio issuing a statement about its homage to X Japan.
"We may need to do a health check because smart people can get involved with these AI."
A Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, made a shocking announcement to the world in 2018: He had secretly engineered the birth of the first gene-edited babies. The birth of the twins was seen as reckless and unethical by the scientific community. That’s because, am…
A researcher who studies flood-risk mapping says many politicians aren't interested in updating maps because it might trigger higher insurance costs and restrictions on construction.
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The newly coined "doubling-back aversion" highlights another reason why people stubbornly refuse to change tack, researchers say.
Remember, it's all synthesized "anthropomorphizing". But with that caveat, Science News reports: In populations of simple software agents (like characters in "The Sims" but much, much simpler), having "guilt" can be a stable strategy that benefits them and in…
New research shows that even frequent dollar store customers are still getting most of their calories elsewhere.
In the wake of the newest 'Fantastic Four' movie, Gruffudd looks back on his own time as Reed Richards in the mid-2000s.
“And yet, somehow, we’re going to go to Mars sooner.”
Sometimes the most effective way to present food is for an anime to briefly become live-action.
Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper than any found before.
28-year-old Andrew McGann went to college in Oklahoma, getting his Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education. News 4 spoke with parents from a school where...
Digg is making a comeback. With the backing of people like Digg cofounder Kevin Rose and Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Digg has ambitions to once again be the homepage of the internet. The revival is still in its very early days - the platform is still inv…
California researchers planned a multimillion-dollar test of salt water-spraying equipment that could one day be used to dim the sun's rays — over a 3,900-square mile are off the west coasts of North America, Chile or south-central Africa. E&E News calls it p…
The results are mixed on whether healthcare AI will be revolutionary or problematic
The UK's seas have had their warmest first seven months of the year on average since records began.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Cannabis Regulatory Agency (CRA) has settled with Viridis Laboratories and Viridis North following a series of disciplinary...
Dozens of climate scientists responsible for authoring or contributing research to hundreds of peer-reviewed studies are launching a coordinated response to ...
More than 750 current and former HHS employees signed a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. demanding he stop spreading inaccurate information and guarantee the safety of the workforce.
More than 750 current and former HHS employees signed a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding he stop spreading inaccurate information and guarantee the safety of the workforce.
Microsoft researchers have identified 40 occupations [PDF] with the highest exposure to AI, ranking jobs by how closely their tasks align with AI's current capabilities. The study analyzed 200,000 real-world conversations from Copilot users and compared AI pe…
Google is upping its agentic AI offerings with six workflows designed to make parsing data and creating experience simpler for developers and scientists alike.
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COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Damage to European forests from increased logging, wildfires, drought and pests is reducing their ability to absorb ...
New data finds England's largest lake has "poor" water quality during its busiest months.
While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of sustaining life without sunlight.
Girls are still more likely to pass GCSEs, but why is the gender gap now the lowest on record?
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Google's latest Gemini update launches AI-illustrated storybook generation for users.
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts...
China is having a fast-rising chikungunya outbreak in a place that has never had one before.
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Called Thunderbird, the beer-fridge-sized nuclear reactor is supported by relatively simple electrochemical concepts.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk predicted the automaker could sell over 250,000 Cybertrucks a year, but those stratospheric sales have failed to materialize.
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American science — until now the envy of the world — will not survive the Trump administration's wanton cuts.
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The lowdown on the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to repeal of the “endangerment” finding. Also, how did a juicy ketchup ingredient help create a starchy tuber?
The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 offers a trusty 50MP primary camera, but how does that compare to other Flips and the base-model Galaxy S25? Let's find out.
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Tech companies are restricting debates of public intertest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.
"This is scientifically fascinating, but ecologically deeply concerning."
Science Saru's bias toward Momo and Okarun's budding romance is showing.
Neurotic, anxious robots like C-3P0 from Star Wars' C-3P0 and Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy are a staple of science fiction — but they're not as common in the real world. Most of the time, the chatbots and artificial intelligence "robots" w…
Our anniversary celebration begins with an outstanding collection of stories about times that science itself has made a full about-face
Checking your drink for drugs no longer needs to feel like a science experiment. Scientists in South Korea have created a new solution, a temporary tattoo sticker that instantly detects tampering.
A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on the move, headed one day for New ...
Stargazers on the lookout for meteors were treated to an extra nighttime spectacular on Tuesday night as spirals appeared in the sky along the East Coast.
UCLA has been notified that it will be losing some of its federal research funding over claims of “antisemitism and bias,” according to the school’s chancellor.
Gutting the National Science Foundation’s budget would prevent the agency from breaking ground on the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii.
NASA faces historic budget cuts that could shutter missions and stall vital research, prompting a bipartisan outcry from all of the agency’s living former science chiefs.
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Mark Ruffalo and Michael Mando will reprise their previous Marvel roles in the 2026 film.
Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired, and offers lessons for today
Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030
The end of an era.
Representative Eric Sorensen of Illinois shares how his meteorology roots drive his fight to protect climate science and push back against political interference.
The Trump administration has proposed the University of California pay more than $1 billion to settle antisemitism charges and restore frozen grant funding...
"It makes me happy to see the ones I've cared for grow bigger."
Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow expressed concern on Friday over the Trump administration’s move to take a 10 percent stake in mega chipmaker Intel. “I am very, ...
Speed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technology
Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, not the "smorgasbord of priorities," like climate science, the agency has been directing its resources.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022. The chatbot now has 700 million users. Here's what to know.
I was diagnosed with ADHD at 32. I've developed coping mechanisms my whole life without knowing why, and a diagnosis is vindicating.
Ce dimanche 3 août à 21h10, France 2 proposera aux téléspectateurs de découvrir les aventures cinématographiques de Visiteur du Futur.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sun-like star to Earth.
Rates of the world's deadliest cancer appear to be low in sub-Saharan Africa. But that statistic is masking the scope of the disease, doctors say.
The American Medical Association expresses "deep concern" over a report that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy plans to remove members of...
Boeing (BA) reported second quarter earnings on Tuesday that topped expectations — and stemmed the tide of cash burn that's plagued Boeing since early last...
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NASA will announce its new astronaut class in September, as well as details about the Artemis 2 crewed mission around the moon.
A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but we can’t see both at the same time.
"You can easily get in a cycle."
'Weapons' opens August 8, and io9 spoke to its writer and director about following up his previous film, 'Barbarian.'
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be useful resources for any explorers that might land there one day, a new study finds.
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Cette nouvelle puce, apparemment plus performante que la H20, illustre les efforts déployés par Nvidia pour continuer d'opérer sur le marché chinois sans froisser le gouvernement américain.
Fini la séance stressante dans une pièce sombre avec un gros appareil fixé sur le visage. Des chercheurs sud-coréens ont mis au point la première lentille de contact au monde dotée d’un écran OLED ultrafin capable de diagnostiquer l’état de la rétine, en tout…
A solar system model with a small projector built in, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a great educational tool for kids.