2025-11-21

OpenAI report suggests GPT‑5 is starting to ease scientists’ daily workloads

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Science Acceleration compiles a series of case studies showing how researchers already use the model in real research. Beyond its upbeat framing, the report mainly offers an inside lo [...]

2025-11-21

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now

Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers. [...]

2025-11-21

Chris Hemsworth and dad fight Alzheimer’s with a trip down memory lane

Ars chats with director Tom Barbor-Might about new National Geographic documentary A Road Trip to Remember. [...]

2025-11-21

First revealed in spy photos, a Bronze Age city emerges from the steppe

An unexpectedly large city lies in a sea of grass inhabited largely by nomads. [...]

2025-11-21

Our favorite 2025 advent calendars you can still get now: Top picks from Lego, Pokémon, Funko Pop and more

Why settle for tiny pieces of chocolate when you could unwrap a Pokémon card, a Funko Pop or a Star Wars LEGO ship instead? Advent calendars have gone full geek mode, with options for fans of movies, [...]

2025-11-20

The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem

Everyone’s suddenly obsessed with the pelvic floor—physical therapists, MAHA influencers, me. Could this deeply misunderstood body part really be the seat of so much modern dysfunction? [...]

2025-11-20

Paradromics Gets FDA Approval to Trial Its Brain Implant in People

The Austin-based startup will test its high-bandwidth device to help restore speech in people with extremely limited movement. [...]

2025-11-20

Webb telescope images an aging binary star system in the center of a four-layered cosmic dust shell

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has captured is of an unusual star system in our galaxy with what the agen [...]

2025-11-20

Blue Origin announces New Glenn rocket upgrades fit for a trip to the Moon

After its most recent successful New Glenn mission, Blue Origin is announcing propulsion upgrades to its star rocket, and plans for a larger "super-heavy class rocket" that puts the company [...]