Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. [...]

Look to the Sky: Bright Fireballs Appear During the Perseids Meteor Shower

Look up, and if you're lucky, you could see dozens of meteors in the sky each hour. [...]

Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams

Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body. [...]

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse. [...]

50+ scientific societies sign letter objecting to Trump executive order

Letter urges Congress to take action to safeguard integrity of independent peer-review system. [...]

Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back. [...]

Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests

The review of more than 60 scientific articles showed that microplastics, among other effects, can stimulate the formation of osteoclasts, cells specialized in degrading bone tissue. [...]

OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original [...]

Switching water sources improved hygiene of Pompeii’s public baths

Scientists analyzed carbonate deposits from baths, aqueduct to learn more about city's changing water supply. [...]