Category: 7. SciTech

For most people, sensing temperature is second nature. You grab a hot cup of coffee and instinctively pull back if it’s too warm. You touch a cold glass of water and immediately register the chill. But for amputees, these basic sensations have been lost… until now. Now, researchers… Continue Reading

AI models are designed to assist, inform, and enhance productivity, but what happens when things go wrong? Researchers recently discovered that when they fine-tuned OpenAI’s GPT-4o with faulty code, it didn’t just produce insecure programming—it spiraled into extreme… Continue Reading

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child, that carries features from both humans and Neanderthals, to between 27,700 and 28,600… Continue Reading

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in early March 2025 as strong winds, abnormally dry conditions, and low humidity combined to kindle and spread the flames. The fires… Continue Reading

Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel for the shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow, said disclosure is a prerequisite for holding banks to their climate goals. ”We want to understand what it is they’re doing,” she said. Laws like California’s bring to light the financial… Continue Reading

It feels cruel, doesn’t it? Being forced to lose a precious hour of sleep. In the US, daylight saving time (DST) begins on March 9, 2025. At 2am local time, clocks move forward by one hour, skipping to 3am. Beyond making you feel a little bit more sleepy tomorrow, however, scientists are… Continue Reading

A nondescript, decrepit twist of gnarled wood found tucked between rocks in the Finnish tundra is a lot more than meets the eye. Concealed within the tangled limbs of the now-dead common juniper (Juniperus communis) is an age more venerable than any shrub on record. It shriveled and died in… Continue Reading

As the Sun returns and the winter blues drift away, it is almost time to adjust the clocks in the US. Daylight Saving Time (DST), the practice of adjusting your clocks twice a year, has a long history, complete with controversies, diplomacy, and some peculiarities depending on where you… Continue Reading

SpaceX has contracts with NASA worth approximately $4 billion to design and develop a human-rated Moon lander based on the Starship design. The Starship lander is a central piece of NASA’s architecture for the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface later this… Continue Reading

Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has filed applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to exclusively own the names Telepathy, Telekinesis, and others for future products. Neuralink, which Musk cofounded in 2016, is developing a type of technology known as… Continue Reading