Category Science

February 7, 2025 4 min read Professional Soccer Players May Demonstrate Exceptional Cognitive Control Top soccer players demonstrate superlative cognitive abilities for strategizing and situational awareness By Christiane Gelitz & Gary Stix edited by Dean Visser Soccer fans sometimes imagine…

February 10, 2025 3 min read Google’s AI Can Beat the Smartest High Schoolers in Math Google’s AlphaGeometry2 AI reaches the level of gold-medal students in the International Mathematical Olympiad By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine Google DeepMind’s AI AlphaGeometry2…

What might be lurking on the surface of the unusual moon Shroud? Shutterstock/Iurii ShroudAdrian Tchaikovsky (Tor) The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, examines the question of whether, faced with an alien intelligence, we would actually perceive it as intelligent.…

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced on February 7 it was immediately cutting some $4 billion a year in funding to biomedical researchers nationwide. The move would reduce the share of NIH grants paid to “indirect” costs—lab upkeep, administration…

The 2022 report includes an analysis of 82 universities, the indirect cost rate they receive from federal grants, and the indirect cost rate they receive from private funders such as the Sloan Foundation, Gates Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.…

The experimental supersonic aircraft XB-1 Boom Supersonic When the experimental XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier three times during its first supersonic flight on 28 January, it did not produce a sonic boom audible from the ground, according to US…

What We’ve Learned about Superstrong Shrimp, How Deep Canyons Formed on the Moon, and What Bonobos Know In this week’s roundup, we’re reviewing some animal research, the latest on bird flu and the burden of microplastics on our brain. By…

Ask someone how the universe began and they will probably reply with those three familiar words: the big bang. But as recently as the 1960s, cosmologists hotly debated this matter. On the other side of the argument to the big…

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration is looking to halve the NOAA workforce, say two former officials of the agency, a member of Congress and a congressional staff member. The draconian cut, they say — which would reduce the number of…

An illustration showing Earth’s inner structure Rostislav Zatonskiy/Alamy Earth’s solid inner core appears to have changed shape in the past 20 years or so, according to seismic wave measurements – but the behaviour of these waves could also be explained…