Category Science

February 7, 2025 2 min read Why This AI Gazes into Goat Faces AI-based systems can help identify livestock’s early signs of distress By Lucy Tu edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Nitin Prabhudesai/Getty Images The patient grumbled and grimaced, but…

Elon Musk is a close associate of US president Donald Trump K C Alfred/San Diego U-T/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Is a team led by Elon Musk going to crash US government computer systems? In recent weeks, there have been numerous reports…

February 7, 2025 3 min read Trump Halts Funding to Build More Electric Vehicle Chargers Nationwide The Trump administration has halted funding for a $5-billion program that Congress created to help states build out their electric vehicle charging network By…

New fighter jet components can be 3D printed Rolls Royce Fighter jets that first flew in the 1970s can be transformed into a fine powder and used to 3D print components for the next generation of aircraft in the UK’s…

Asteroids have the potential to cause widespread destruction muratart/Shutterstock Telescopes around the world are currently trained on a building-sized asteroid hurtling in Earth’s direction, in an effort to try to understand whether it might hit us. Our current best guess…

February 6, 2025 3 min read Trump’s DEI Purge Comes at a Cost to Indigenous Communities President Donald Trump’s purge of diversity initiatives has affected both federal agencies and the institutions they fund, including those that work with Indigenous communities…

A chip on the end of an optical fibre University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in China An artificial intelligence chip smaller than a grain of salt can perch at the end of an optical fibre, harnessing the physics…

[CLIP: Theme music] Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re 18 days into the second Trump administration, and when it comes to the president’s impact on health and science, things have been pretty chaotic. There’s been…

A new imaging device can capture 3D scans of human faces from hundreds of metres away Aongus McCarthy, Heriot-Watt University From 325 metres away, your eyes can probably distinguish a person’s head from their body – and not much else.…

February 6, 2025 5 min read Why Elon Musk’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Is Really a Dead End Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational survival, which has…