The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

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

Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. [...]

The Earth Has a Growing Weak Spot in Its Magnetic Field: Here's What That Means

Science has known about the weak spot for over half a century, but it's now getting bigger. [...]

A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

"We can’t quite afford to support everything that we have done in the past." [...]

Science fiction sold us “good” AI – now it’s shaping how we treat real AI

By filling our minds with loyal droids and wise computers, has sci-fi set us up to misunderstand the messy truth of AI? [...]

Embark on a visual voyage of art inspired by black holes

Art and science converge in Lynn Gamwell's book, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes [...]

Someone made a 'camera' that can shoot at two billion frames per second

Brian Haidet, a scientist creating videos on YouTube under the handle AlphaPhoenix, showed off a camera in a new video that can capture footage of a laser pointer at the speed of light. The camera is [...]

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" [...]

Sakana AI's CTO says he's 'absolutely sick' of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model

In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week [...]