What Watching a Soccer Final Does to Your Body, According to Science

A recent study tracked hundreds of soccer fans until their favorite team reached the final of a tournament. Their stress levels skyrocketed, and their heart rates jumped too. [...]

Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen

The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every [...]

TSMC breaks ground on more advanced packaging fabs in Chiayi

TSMC will build additional advanced packaging fabs in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said at a groundbrea [...]

Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging. [...]

Pete Hegseth’s Plan for ‘High T’ Troops Is a Junk Science Fever Dream

The defense secretary’s idea of administering testosterone therapy to service members of the US Armed Forces reveals little understanding of the complexity of hormones. [...]

DeepMind’s Hassabis says a STEM degree makes you 10x better with AI

AI is reshaping tech careers. But it will not kill off the value of a STEM degree, according to Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis. He made the comments at a London business conference, in a video p [...]

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

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

Exclusive: 'We...ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out': I saw inside Beats' labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why 'the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound' is the hidden secret

Twelve years after Apple acquired Beats, TechRadar was granted exclusive access to the company's Culver City headquarters and engineering labs to discover how the iconic audio brand has preserved [...]

25 computer science concepts explained for non-engineers

From algorithms to technical debt, these 25 foundational ideas explain how software actually works — no coding experience or engineering degree required [...]