Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

Does swearing make you stronger? Science says yes.

"A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance.” [...]

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data. [...]

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. [...]

A quirky guide to myths and lore based in actual science

Folklorist/historian Adrienne Mayor on her new book Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore [...]

Elon Musk announces Terafab project he claims will be the 'largest chip manufacturing facility ever'

Elon Musk has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, to build the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk clai [...]

Airloom will showcase its new approach to wind power at CES

One of the many concerns about artificial intelligence these days is how the rush to build data centers is impacting local communities. Data centers can create a drain on resources, and some utility c [...]

"Players using CryoTherm Palm felt 60% cooler, held 2.45% higher speeds and preserved sprint velocity 4.7% better" — I asked Therabody's Chief Science Officer how England's World Cup squad is using a new cooling device to combat heat and boost performanc

Therabody's Chief Science Officer tells us about the high-tech cooling gadgets his company supplied to England's World Cup squad — which work by cooling the user's palms. [...]

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. [...]