2025-07-01

The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs

President Donald Trump’s budget would kill off tax credits for wind and solar, raising costs for new clean energy projects and blowing up valuable investment in those already in the pipeline. [...]

2025-07-01

The Morning After: Don’t let an AI run a vending machine

Hey, you know those politicians and captains of industry who tell us AI will be running the world in a few years’ time? Turns out one of the most sophisticated models currently in use can’t even [...]

2025-07-01

RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions

The move comes after RFK Jr. called top medical journals "corrupt." [...]

2025-07-01

White House works to ground NASA science missions before Congress can act

"We would be turning off some fabulous missions that are doing extremely well." [...]

2025-06-30

NASA will start livestreaming content on Netflix later this summer

NASA is bringing live NASA+ programming to Netflix. For the uninitiated, NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Content will begin showing up later this summer.<br /> This [...]

2025-06-30

11 Bit Studios clarifies its AI use in The Alters after player outcry

11 Bit Studios has drawn the ire of players for the undisclosed use of artificial intelligence in its recent release, The Alters. The new project from the team behind Frostpunk and This War of Mine is [...]

2025-06-30

A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40,000 years old

The boomerang is a one-of-a-kind find from the last place archaeologists expected. [...]

2025-06-30

NIH budget cuts affect research funding beyond US borders

European leaders say they will fill the funding void. Is that realistic? [...]

2025-06-30

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: final Muon g-2 results, an ultrasonic mobile brain imaging helmet, and re-creating Egyptian blue. [...]