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. [...]

ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers they did not bother to read

  ArXiv, the open-access repository that has served as the primary distribution channel for preprint research in computer science, mathematics, and physics for more than three decades, will ban autho [...]

Searching for Cancer Cures Is Part of Google's AI Story. It Deserves to Be More Than a Footnote

Commentary: Forget "Ask YouTube." Google should prioritize the AI work it's doing in science. [...]

20 things science has discovered about why humans are so bad at predicting their own happiness

Science reveals why predicting your own happiness is so hard, from impact bias to hedonic adaptation and the psychology behind bad forecasts [...]

All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing. [...]

Chicks hatched from artificial eggshells, a new mission to study Earth's magnetosphere and more science stories

This week's science news. [...]

How AI inhibits our curiosity, and what to do to regain it, according to science

When answers are instantly available, prepackaged, and delivered with confidence, the motivation to explore diminishes. [...]

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. [...]

15 plants that are stranger than any science fiction

From a tree that bleeds red sap to a flower with no roots or leaves, these 15 plants are more extreme than most science fiction could imagine [...]