Category Science

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos—men dominate the tech industry. In 2021 men made up 75 percent of employed computer scientists and 84 percent of employed engineers in the U.S. And that’s cause for concern. Consider the misuse…

OpenAI announced a breakthrough achievement for its new o3 AI model Rokas Tenys / Alamy OpenAI’s new o3 artificial intelligence model has achieved a breakthrough high score on a prestigious AI reasoning test called the ARC Challenge, inspiring some AI…

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. A livestock veterinarian at the University of Wisconsin, Poulsen had seen sick cows before, with their noses dripping and…

TikTok is a video-sharing social media platform Anatolii Babii / Alamy A US law banning the popular video-sharing app TikTok is set to take effect at the start of 2025 – but the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear…

December 20, 2024 2 min read Ancient Moon Melt Event May Explain 150-Million-Year Gap in Age Estimates The moon may have melted 4.35 billion years ago—explaining a lunar age mystery By Payal Dhar edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Javier Zayas…

outbreaks of Oropouche virus have flared up in the Amazon for decades, but historically the pathogen has little troubled the rest of the world. But this seems to be changing. In 2024, the virus showed that it can travel. Most…

Particles in ship exhaust inadvertently cause cloud brightening – some geoengineering projects would try to recreate this effect NASA’s Earth Obervatory How would the world react if one country launched a solar geoengineering project to cool the planet without the…

December 20, 2024 2 min read Run, Lucy, Run! Human Ancestors Could Jog but Not Very Far or Fast 3D models of Australopithecus afarensis hint at the muscular adaptations that made modern humans better runners By Gemma Conroy & Nature magazine A…

It’s the last flight of the day and the plane is pretty empty. So you’re thinking, maaaybe you’ll just move up a few rows, where there’s a nice window seat with a view that’s not obstructed by the wing. Not…

Transmission electron micrograph of parts of the norovirus pathogen BSIP SA/Alamy A global international trial of an mRNA vaccine against norovirus is getting underway with the aim of reducing the health burden caused by the infamous “winter vomiting” bug. The…