Astronomy
Our brain's mitochondria may play a crucial role in the onset of sleep
'Here today, Gorn tomorrow:' Showrunners talk putting a classic alien adversary to rest in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' (exclusive)
First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled
The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe’s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou have completed the critical and hazardous task of fuelling the satellite, marking a major milestone in its final preparations for liftoff.
The time you take an oral exam could affect whether you pass or fail
U.S. Ends Support for CMB-S4 Project to Study Cosmic Inflation
Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets
Heat Dome’s Extreme Heat and Humidity Triggers Alerts across Eastern U.S.
High humidity and overnight low temperatures that are relatively hot will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the course of the coming week
Physicists Blast Gold to Astonishing Temperatures, Overturning 40 Years of Physics
Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids
Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4
As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution
