Bringing the "functionally extinct" American chestnut back from the dead

Wiped out in its native range by invasive pathogens, the trees may make a comeback. [...]

Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing "intelligence"

The material properties change gradually from base to tip for better navigation, more precise manipulation. [...]

Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a technique that can reduce the memory costs of large language model reasoning by up to eight times. Their technique, called dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), c [...]

A Trio of Stars: The Spring Triangle Is Visible All Spring. Here's How to See It

The stars Arcturus, Spica and Regulus are three of the brightest in the sky. [...]

Nvidia launches enterprise AI agent platform with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP among 17 adopters at GTC 2026

Jensen Huang walked onto the GTC stage Monday wearing his trademark leather jacket and carrying, as it turned out, the blueprints for a new kind of monopoly.The Nvidia CEO unveiled the Agent Toolkit, [...]

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

The researchers say the data could be retrieved from the glass in 10,000 years. [...]

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt

Next-generation telescopes are mapping this outer frontier. [...]

MasterClass deal: It's the last day to get 50 percent off subscriptions

MasterClass has dropped the price of its annual memberships by 50 percent, making it a more affordable way to explore its full library of courses across cooking, business, photography, writing and mor [...]

The Nothing That Has the Potential to Be Anything

You can never truly empty a box. Why? Zero-point energy. [...]