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Research

Moon Added to List of Threatened Heritage Sites

Stranded NASA Astronaut Steps Out for Spacewalk

Trump announces $500B Stargate AI project: 'Country will be prospering like never before'

SpaceX's Starship Explodes Mid-Flight Over Atlantic Ocean

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace

Engineering

Tesla Directors to Return $919M in Historic Pay Settlement

NHTSA Probes Tesla's Smart Summon After Multiple Crashes

Stripe is laying off 300 people, but says it still plans to hire in 2025

TechCrunch7 hrs

Circling Robotaxi Incident Briefly Traps Tech Entrepreneur

Palestinians confront a landscape of destruction in Gaza’s ‘ghost towns’

Associated Press14 hrs

Space

SpaceX Launches Two Private Lunar Landers

Blue Origin Launch Delayed

How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once

New Scientist1 day

NASA Probe Makes Record-Setting Solar Fly-by

Contributors to Scientific American’s February 2025 Issue

Scientific American10 hrs

Artificial Intelligence

UK: Starmer Announces Plan to 'Turbocharge' AI

WEF: Global Workforce to Increase Despite Risks of AI-Driven Job Cuts

OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Denies Sister's Abuse Claims

AI executives praise Trump's Stargate project: 'This is a very large investment that affects all of humanity'

OpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company

Computer Science

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet for First Time

Google's Willow Chip Achieves Quantum Computing Milestone

Trump’s new meme coins have MAGA crypto bros up in arms

Bitcoin Passes $93K in Post-Trump Victory Boom

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of notorious dark website Silk Road

Daily Mail6 mins

Genetics & heredity

DNA Study Reveals Precise Timing of Human-Neanderthal Mixing

23andMe to Slash 40% of Staff

Psychotherapy Isn't Nonsense

Psychology Today10 hrs

Report: US Startup Offers IQ Screening for Embryos

Mass deportations don’t keep out ‘bad genes’ − they use scientific racism to justify biased immigration policies

The ConversationJan 14

Archaeology & anthropology

Ancient Mayan City Discovered in Mexican Jungle

Study: Stonehenge Altar Stone Came From Scotland, Not Wales

Skeleton of Bronze Age woman discovered at building site in U.K.

Scientists Reconstruct Wooly Mammoth's Genetic Code

Scientists Identify New Dinosaur From Pre-WWII Photos Of Bombed Fossil

Chemistry

Tenn. Passes Bill Banning Geoengineering

Australia to Ban Single-Use Vape Imports From 2024

Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2

New Scientist5 days

Report: Global Carbon Emissions Plateau; Wind, Solar Grow

Want to quit vaping this year? Here’s what the evidence shows so far about effective strategies

The ConversationJan 08

Anatomy & physiology

Study: Vaping Disrupts Vascular System, Oxygen Levels

Study: Eli Lilly Pill Cuts Genetic High Cholesterol 86%

How GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy affect risk of 175 conditions

New Scientist1 day

AI 'Brain Clock' Appears to Solve 'Brain-Age Gap'

Does Coughing Work Against a Heart Attack? It Might — But You Should Call for Help First

Understanding Vehicle Type Approval: The importance of expertise in automotive cybersecurity

Korea HeraldDec 25, 2024

Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why it’s difficult to do and important to get right

The ConversationDec 18, 2024

Who Is Liable When AI Kills?

Scientific AmericanNov 23, 2024

House Subcommittee Says Proposed Booster Seat Safety Rules Fall Short

ProPublicaMay 27, 2024

World Standards Day approaches – but there is no standard date for it

New ScientistDec 25, 2024

Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls for a moratorium

The ConversationMar 28, 2024

Exclusive: New push for autonomous vehicles bill

AxiosJan 28, 2024

What the Potential Ban on Gas Stoves Means If You Have One

TimeOct 24, 2024

Following raft of consumer complaints, Shein and Temu face early EU scrutiny of DSA compliance

TechCrunchDec 11, 2024

Physics

AI Pioneers Hinton and Hopfield Win Nobel Physics Prize

Astronomers Discover Black Hole 'Waking Up'

Exotic ‘Paraparticles’ That Defy Categorization May Exist in Many Dimensions

Scientific AmericanJan 14

China Set to Build World's Largest Particle Accelerator

Physicists discover that 'impossible' particles could actually be real

New ScientistJan 08

Mathematics

OECD: Math, Reading Scores Plummet in Teens

Report: US Students' Math, Reading Scores Lowest in Decades

Mathematicians found - and fixed - an error in a 60-year-old proof

New ScientistJan 08

Study: COVID Set Back Students By 35% of a Year

Korea scales back AI digital textbook rollout in classrooms

Korea HeraldDec 11, 2024

Inventions & patents

Moderna Sues Pfizer Over mRNA Vaccines

Apple wins $250 from Masimo in watch patent trial

TechCrunchJan 08

The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI

WiredNov 23, 2024

Biology & biochemistry

Wildlife: Orca Mother Observed Grieving Over Second Dead Calf

World's Oldest Wild Bird Lays Egg at 74

State-of-the-Art AI Predicts Gene Activity in Human Cells

Psychology Today6 hrs

Study: Marmosets Call Each Other by Names

Mysterious Blobs Found in Cells Are Rewriting How Life Works

Scientific AmericanJan 01