2025-01-08

NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the thick ice shells of bodies like Europa. [...]

2025-01-08

It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs

Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate. [...]

2025-01-07

Correcting Genetic Spelling Errors With Next-Generation Crispr

Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome. [...]

2025-01-07

Satellites Can Now Identify Methane ‘Super-Emitters’

Two eyes in the sky are now trained on Earth, locating the worst offenders for releasing methane, wherever they may be. [...]

2025-01-07

Ants vs. humans: Solving the piano-mover puzzle

"People stand out for individual cognitive abilities while ants excel in cooperation." [...]

2025-01-07

Does Dry January Really Make People Healthier?

Abstaining from alcohol can have immediate benefits. But lasting gains require lasting change. [...]

2025-01-07

Science paper piracy site Sci-Hub shares lots of retracted papers

85 percent of invalid papers continue to be shared after they've been retracted. [...]

2025-01-07

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Sets Date for Historic New Glenn Rocket Launch

Blue Origin hopes New Glenn, named for space legend John Glenn, will make it safely to orbit for the inaugural test flight of a rocket that could rival those in Elon Musk's SpaceX fleet. [...]

2025-01-07

The First US Bird Flu Death Is a Stark Warning

A Louisiana patient is the first person in the United States to die as a result of H5N1 infection. One expert likens what happens next to Russian roulette. [...]