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Cement production accounts for 8% of global CO₂ emissions, with direct process emissions from limestone conversion exceeding those from fuel…

Casimir Inc. has emerged from stealth with venture capital funding to develop a "free energy" device that claims to extract…

Common vaccinations for flu, shingles, Tdap, and other diseases are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with the shingles…

Scientists warn that an intensifying El Niño, combined with long-term warming from fossil fuel combustion, will worsen heatwaves, droughts, and…

A study in Science found that OpenAI's o1-preview LLM outperformed physicians on clinical reasoning tasks using real emergency room records,…

The author describes how her husband's obsession with AI (specifically Claude Code) has created a dynamic where the AI feels…

New research from McGill University indicates that vocal fry, often stereotyped as a female speech trait, is actually more common…

AI coding tools have collapsed the cost of implementation, making building cheaper than planning and inverting the traditional economics of…

Campbell Brown founded Forum AI to address the lack of accuracy in AI models on complex, "high-stakes" topics like geopolitics…

A solar-powered drone with a 236-foot wingspan, converted from the original Solar Impulse 2, set an endurance record during an…

Ancient DNA analysis shows early humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans, and the Denisovan genome contained traces of an even…

A Neanderthal in Siberia approximately 59,000 years ago received the oldest known dental procedure, where a sharp stone tool was…

Tetramem is developing a memristor-based memory chip that can operate at 700°C, far exceeding the limits of traditional electronics, which…

NASA's microgravity research, which gained momentum with the International Space Station, led to breakthroughs like growing a more uniform crystalline…

The barbell's "whip" (flexural bending) is a measurable physical property that elite weightlifters use to accelerate their lifts by feeling…

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing from galaxy cluster MACS J046 to observe LAP1-B, an ultra-faint…

Consciousness remains a profound philosophical mystery, as it is unclear why any physical brain state should produce subjective experience, a…

AI is creating a "productivity illusion" where people produce polished work they can't explain, confusing output with genuine understanding. This…

Male mice whose fathers exercised before conception showed superior endurance and lower lactic acid production, linked to elevated microRNA levels…

Quantum computing approaches fall into two main categories: embedding qubits in manufacturable electronics for scalability, or using atoms/photons for consistent…