2025-01-06

Swave, the startup building true holographic smart glasses, bags €27M

In the 1977 Star Wars film A New Hope, there’s an iconic scene where the beloved droid R2-D2 casts a beam of light to create a hologram of Princess Leia pleading for the help of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sadl [...]

2025-01-05

Could Humans Have a Brain Microbiome?

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. [...]

2025-01-04

Wildfire Smoke Is Even More Dangerous Than Anyone Knew

Smoke exposure, researchers have found, raises the risk of dementia, poor mental health, fertility problems, and neurodegenerative diseases. [...]

2025-01-04

It’s Time for Parents to Step Up in the Fight for Clean Air

Fossil fuel pollution is impacting the most vulnerable among us: children. Their future—and health—are at stake. [...]

2025-01-04

Take Part in Veganuary and You Might See Yourself Differently

The ritual of giving up animal products for a month leads participants to see both meat and themselves in a different way, and could have lasting effects on people’s diets. [...]

2025-01-04

Microsoft is spending $80 billion on data centers this year

Microsoft has published a lengthy piece talking about its vision for artificial intelligence development over the next four years, under the incoming Trump administration. In the piece, the company ha [...]

2025-01-04

Watch the Full Wolf Moon Gobble Up Mars on Jan. 13

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars disappear, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's vanishing act from the contiguous US this month. [...]

2025-01-04

Elon Musk Calls Out NASA’s Moon Ambitions: ‘We’re Going Straight to Mars’

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence in the Trump administration. [...]

2025-01-03

Fast radio bursts originate near the surface of stars

Single burst shows neutron-star-like features, a source close to the star. [...]