2025-10-03

China Is Leading the World in the Clean Energy Transition. Here's What That Looks Like

The country spends like no one else on renewables and has reshaped the global market. Is it enough? [...]

2025-10-03

A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable objects—suggesting that dark matter had a hand in its formation. [...]

2025-10-03

Scientists revive old Bulgarian recipe to make yogurt with ants

Ants carry lactic and acetic acid bacteria that help coagulate milk, as well as formic acid to acidify it. [...]

2025-10-02

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. [...]

2025-10-02

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them. [...]

2025-10-02

Trump offers universities a choice: Comply for preferential funding

Who needs peer review? Plan offers easier grants to schools that agree to limits. [...]

2025-10-02

World-famous primatologist Jane Goodall dead at 91

Goodall's immersive studies of chimpanzees in Africa redefined what it means to be human. [...]

2025-10-02

New AI training method creates powerful software agents with just 78 examples

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets. [...]

2025-10-01

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

Giant sloths are extinct in part because they were tasty and nutritious. [...]