Nike World Cup Uniforms Made of Recycled Textiles Won’t Solve Fashion Waste

The activewear giant has used chemical recycling to make jersey for 16 teams competing in the tournament. But the technique is unlikely to help solve fashion’s waste issue. [...]

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away

The differences seen here could be throwing off how we study planetary atmospheres. [...]

Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA

Distinct form of tooth protein in Homo erectus shows up in Denisovans—and us. [...]

AI IQ is here: a new site scores frontier AI models on the human IQ scale. The results are already dividing tech.

For decades, the IQ test has been one of the most familiar — and most contested — yardsticks for human intelligence. Now, a startup project called AI IQ is applying the same metaphor to artificial [...]

Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño

Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. [...]

A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has b [...]

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms. [...]

Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound." [...]

Trump's Federal Gas Tax Holiday Isn't Likely to Bring Down Prices

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads. [...]