2025-04-17

Wikipedia offers AI developers a training dataset to maybe get scraper bots off its back

Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been hav [...]

2025-04-17

Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers

Warmer temperatures and increased carbon dioxide will boost arsenic levels in rice. [...]

2025-04-17

Astronomers Report Increased Possibility of Life on Distant K2-18b Planet

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers say they're closer than ever to confirming signs of life on a distant exoplanet. [...]

2025-04-17

Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential biosignature of marine microorganisms. [...]

2025-04-17

US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down

Stoppage comes the same week a government report finds few problems with permitting. [...]

2025-04-17

The first meteor shower of spring peaks soon, and another is close on its heels

There are several meteor showers we can count on seeing every year as Earth passes through the debris trails of known comets and asteroids orbiting the sun, and two of them are about to be in full swi [...]

2025-04-17

Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow

Amid an ongoing measles outbreak, the US is also facing a surge in pertussis, or whooping cough. As vaccine rates drop, other diseases could be next. [...]

2025-04-17

Skepticism greets claims of a possible biosignature on a distant world

It's really difficult to get a clear sign of life on an exoplanet. [...]

2025-04-16

Aurora Borealis Might Be Visible in the Far North Skies Tonight

There's a chance for G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm tonight, NOAA space weather forecaster Shawn Dahl told CNET. [...]