Science and Technolgy blog
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday his intent to nominate entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the next administrator of NASA. For those unfamiliar with Isaacman, who at just 16 years old founded a payment processing company in his parents’…
An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming.
Scientists have designed special immune cells that protect transplanted pancreatic cells from attack in mice.
A recent study published in Sex Roles highlights the experiences of women athletes and coaches in traditionally male-dominated strength sports like Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, CrossFit, and strongman. Researchers found that women in these fields confront societal expectations about femininity and…
As the AI industry grows in size and influence, the companies involved have begun making stark choices about where they land on issues of life and death. For example, can their AI models be used to guide weapons or make…
Over the last few years, Apple has steadily been building password manager-style features into macOS and iOS, including automatic password generation, password breach detection, and more. Starting with this year’s updates—iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia—Apple broke all that functionality…
Heat waves fueled by climate change killed scores of people and upended daily life. Here are some of those stories.
The hydrogen fuel tank of a Toyota vehicle on display.
An artist’s illustration of primordial black holes.
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has still been that the malware is used in targeted attacks against an extremely small number of people. At…
