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Generative AI and the hype around it has rung in excitement and alarm bells this year. Here’s how to consider climate, energy and AI’s intersection.

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head.

Google’s new 105-qubit ‘Willow’ quantum processor has surpassed a key error-correction threshold first proposed in 1995 — with errors now reducing exponentially as you scale up quantum machines.

The device, which directs a liquid by mimicking squids’ high-pressure jets, could provide alternative delivery methods for injectable drugs.

The Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines erupted today (Dec. 9) at 3:03 p.m. local time, spouting an eruption column of up to 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) into the sky and triggering the evacuation of 87,000 people.

A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics.

Trees are important for the health of our planet. For one, they pull carbon dioxide, a planet-warming gas, out of the air. But they also take up methane gas, scientists have now learned. Methane is even more potent as a…

Organoid (noun, “OR-guh-noid”) An organoid is a model of an organ made from living cells. Organoids are lab tools that mimic the functions of real organs. Organs carry out specific jobs in our bodies. Digestion begins in the stomach. The…

A wood and leather shield dating to around A.D. 250 is one of only a few complete Roman scuta ever found.

A car driving by a raging wildfire in Orange County, California.