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Octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish possess some of the most sophisticated nervous systems in the animal kingdom, giving them remarkable abilities such as solving problems and rapidly changing their appearance to…

Last week OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, dropped 722 mathematical manuscripts online in one go, every one of them penned by an artificial intelligence model unavailable to the public. The…

If there is extraterrestrial life out there, it’s certainly done a great job of staying hidden so far (at least as far as the official scientific consensus goes). International researchers…

(Image credit: SPRIND) Germany has launched a €500m ($560m) Fusion Milestone Programme to accelerate the commercial development of nuclear fusion power plants. The initiative, managed by SPRIND, the Federal Agency…

Strokes are becoming increasingly common among younger adults, challenging the long-held belief that they primarily affect older people. A study examining nearly three decades of medical data found that stroke…

An estimated 22 million Americans currently use cannabis as a form of sleep aid, and almost one in four says they’re likely to try the drug to help them sleep….

Quantum computers promise exponential computational power by processing many possibilities simultaneously. But the machines we have today are still far from this ideal. For one, their bits, called qubits, are…

General Fusion’s Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), a large-scale Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) demonstration machine. Credit: General Fusion Canada’s General Fusion has achieved a landmark milestone by heating plasma to 1.1…

While working on his land in a village in northern Egypt, a man made an astonishing discovery: the remains of two massive statues of Ramesses II. The man, Khaled el-Shahat,…

An unusually detailed examination of an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain has revealed striking differences between regions where treatment successfully removed harmful amyloid plaques and areas where those plaques remained. The regions…

Grocery store shelves are bursting with fancy salts: Himalayan, kosher, sea salt and more. Considering these choices, it can be easy to forget about the public health victory found in…

They don’t make ’em like they used to. A shipwreck believed to date to the early Bronze Age has been discovered at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it…

Even when a person is fully unconscious under general anesthesia, their brain may still be doing something remarkable: processing language, recognizing patterns, and even anticipating which words will come next….

If Elon Musk is a genius at anything, it’s making people think that he’s a genius. This becomes obvious early on in Musk, director Alex Gibney’s 235-minute documentary about the…

When a bee wants to tell its hive mates how to find a scrumptious field of flowers, it wiggles its rear end. A complicated combination of figure eight–like movements known…

The Sun at the center of our own Solar System is a great advert for nuclear fusion: ultra-high temperatures and pressures combining to fuse hydrogen nuclei together into helium nuclei,…

In the southern constellation of Fornax lies a tiny patch of sky just like any other. Your eyes may have brushed past it a hundred times without a thought. Yet…

The FDA has approved the first drug designed to directly treat Alexander disease, an extremely rare neurological disorder that progressively damages the nervous system and can be fatal. The treatment,…

NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking – YouTube Watch On A Dragon is closing the gap between itself and its destination after a more than two-day-long orbital…

Members of the public who tried to submit their views on a proposed change to the National Institutes of Health’s grant funding system say they found themselves locked out after…

Scientists have spent decades studying the brain’s cells, connections, genes, and proteins. Yet another essential part of brain biology has received far less attention: lipids. These fatty molecules make up…

A year and a half ago, a Seattle-based nuclear startup got the keys to a Port of Benton facility it hoped would be its first test bed for its cutting-edge…

Even when artificial intelligence behaves exactly like a human, people are reluctant to consider it conscious, according to a new study from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). As artificial…

It started as a supplement for athletes, and now scientists are investigating the benefits of creatine for more than just muscle. According to preliminary evidence, this natural organic compound could…

Artificial intelligence models are getting good at math—but only the corporate AIs. The First Proof project, which aims to objectively evaluate the mathematical reasoning of publicly available AI models, released…

As difficult as it is to adapt video games to film already, it must be doubly so for fighting game adaptations. Unlike the traditional storytelling of more narratively complex games…

America’s power grid is being pushed to its limits. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that the country is experiencing its strongest sustained surge in demand for electricity in more than…

Scientists investigating why the Moon’s two sides look so different have uncovered new evidence that could help explain this long-standing mystery. A research team led by Professor Hejiu Hui of…

Doctor Who is in big trouble, and the only solution may be time travel. The British sci-fi series has been in trouble after the dissolution of an experimental partnership with…