'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all

This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace. [...]

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

NASA's charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however. [...]

Former Neuralink Exec Launches Organ Preservation Effort

Science Corporation, founded by Neuralink’s first president, Max Hodak, has unveiled a prototype machine to extend the life of organs for longer periods. [...]

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. [...]

Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. [...]

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens. [...]

NASA's Perseverance rover finds potential signs of ancient life on Mars

NASA just announced that its Perseverance rover recently found some promising signs of ancient life on Mars. The rover obtained a sample of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment and there ar [...]

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they're impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation [...]

Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction

Elon Musk reflects on advances we've made in the 21st century and how, in times gone past, they would be considered "indistinguishable from magic" [...]