Science and Technolgy blog
If you’re having trouble sleeping at night, have you tried to induce total existential dread by contemplating the end of the entire Universe? If not, here’s a rundown of five ideas exploring how “all there is” might become “nothing at…
Tobacco products are attracting fewer U.S. teen and tween users than at any other time in the last 25 years. The latest numbers come from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey, or NYTS. It collected data from January to May…
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious “fuzzy” matter.
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet’s mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth’s crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.
Recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that large language models, such as ChatGPT-4, demonstrate an unexpected capacity to solve tasks typically used to evaluate the human ability known as “theory of mind.”…
A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway’s Bear Island, which is surrounded by extremely radioactive waters left behind by a doomed Soviet submarine.
Blue Origin announced on Monday evening that it plans to make a second attempt to launch the New Glenn rocket at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Tuesday. In the company’s short update, it confirmed earlier reporting by Ars that…
The onion supplier behind a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders this past fall had numerous health and sanitation violations, including employees with unwashed hands, dirty equipment, and puddles of Listeria bacteria. That’s according to a Food…
Men are more prone than women to exhibit sunk cost bias—the tendency to persist with an investment despite its disadvantages—when exposed to romantic cues, according to new research published in the Journal of Consumer Research. Surprisingly this effect is not…
Mastodon announced Monday that it’s shifting its structure over the next six months to become wholly owned by a European nonprofit organization—”affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.” This takes control of…
