2025-10-09

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms

Workers with ropes could make the moai "walk" in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose. [...]

2025-10-09

Nvidia researchers boost LLMs reasoning skills by getting them to 'think' during pre-training

Researchers at Nvidia have developed a new technique that flips the script on how large language models (LLMs) learn to reason. The method, called reinforcement learning pre-training (RLP), integrates [...]

2025-10-08

Building ordered polymers with metal

Structured polymers called metal-organic frameworks get the chemistry Nobel. [...]

2025-10-08

European Commission launches "Apply AI" and "AI in Science" strategies to boost AI adoption

The European Commission has unveiled two major plans aimed at speeding up the adoption of artificial intelligence in key industries and the public sector. Under the "Apply AI" and "AI i [...]

2025-10-08

Clean Energy Transition Still Looks Hopeful Globally Despite Policy Reversals in US

Global emissions are expected to drop 63% by 2060, according to a new report. [...]

2025-10-08

Floating electrons on a sea of helium

Yes, it's another potential qubit. But it's also some very cool physics. [...]

2025-10-08

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

"Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people." [...]

2025-10-08

Scientist Who Was Offline 'Living His Best Life' Stunned by Nobel Prize Win

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Montana wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology. [...]

2025-10-07

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’

A Facebook group set up to share information about leucovorin has been spammed by affiliate links and supplement companies trying to shame parents of autistic kids. [...]