Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?

A new book argues that tests might reshape human diversity even if they don't work. [...]

Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists

"Noncitizens" lost after-hours access to a NIST lab last month. [...]

Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils

Like rocks, egg shells can trap isotopes, allowing us to use them to date samples. [...]

How to View the ‘Blood Moon’ Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3

Next month, the Earth will come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to take on an eerie reddish hue. [...]

AI joins the 8-hour work day as GLM ships 5.1 open source LLM, beating Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro

Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful, open source GLM family of models, has unveiled GLM-5.1 today under a [...]

The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year

Despite Donald Trump’s unrelenting attacks on renewable energy, there’s a quiet revolution happening on US grids. [...]

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

As agentic AI workflows multiply the cost and latency of long reasoning chains, a team from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University and TogetherAI has found a [...]

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. [...]

Old Oil and Gas Wells Could Find Second Life Producing Clean Energy

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power. [...]