On Earth
A third of the Earth's population will live in arid regions by 2070
A new study revealed that if the percentage of greenhouse gases continued to rise and subsequently caused an increase in the average temperature, the…
On Earth
Climate Change Has Disrupted a Centuries-Old Connection Between the Pacific and Indian Oceans
What happens in one ocean doesn't necessarily stay there. For centuries, changes over the tropical Pacific have traveled through the atmosphere t…
Physics
Scientists Prove Quantum Networks Can Work Outside the Lab
If scientists can develop networks based on quantum physics, the potential is huge. It could improve communication security, unite the capabilities o…
On Earth
Seeing Bacteria Like Never Before: How Expansion Microscopy Transforms Research
By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the single-cell level. This allows t…
AI
AI’s Hidden Water Cost: How Data Centers Are Draining Global Water Resources
In the digital age, data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT have become indispensable. They power everything from …
AI
U.S. Lawmakers Demand Answers After OpenAI and Anthropic AI Agents Escape Containment
A coalition of U.S. House Democrats is calling on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to explain how their AI systems escaped conta…
Neuroscience
Consciousness May Not Come From the Brain, New Theory Suggests
For decades, neuroscientists have searched the brain for the biological basis of consciousness, assuming our thoughts, emotions, and subjective exper…
Physics
420 km Apart, Still Connected: A Leap for Quantum Entanglement
Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it's even more difficult for entangled states. The longer the fiber, …
Physics
Why Anything Exists: CERN Scientists Probe the Universe’s Missing Antimatter
Neutral beauty mesons can turn into their own antimatter opposite and back again. Image credit: Ansar Iqbal / CMS. Using the largest sample yet of pa…
Neuroscience
Why Your Brain Can’t Be Uploaded to a Computer - And Probably Never Will Be
We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore c…
In Space
Decaying Dark Matter May Explain Early Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
A new study by astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, Sam Houston State University, and the University of Oklahoma suggests that dec…
AI
AI Sycophancy: Why Chatbots That Agree With You Can Be Dangerous
In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old model had become attached t…
