The Final Supermoon of 2025 Is December's Cold Moon

It'll be earning its name as temperatures across the US are expected to be lower than average. [...]

Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die

They seem to reorganize their tissues and then just keep living. [...]

New study maps how AI models think and where their reasoning breaks down

A large analysis of more than 170,000 reasoning traces from open-source reasoning models shows that large language models rely heavily on simple, default strategies when tasks get harder. A new cognit [...]

'Project Hail Mary' Creator Andy Weir Just Taught Me a Surprising Thing About Sci-Fi

I spoke with Andy Weir about the adaptation of his hit novel, Project Hail Mary. Our conversation quickly turned into a mind-blowing lesson about science fiction. [...]

Capturing the Moment a White Dwarf Exploded

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. [...]

New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region

Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming. [...]

Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too

But the specific behaviors linked may be completely unrelated. [...]

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has b [...]

How to Measure the Earth’s Radius With Legos

With just a friend, a phone, and a few Lego bricks, you can accurately measure the size of our planet. [...]