2025-08-12

Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic

A study of plastic bottles washed up on the Pacific coast of Latin America has identified a double problem—a mass of local waste combined with long-traveling bottles from Asia. [...]

2025-08-11

AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds

The latest example of bias permeating artificial intelligence comes from the medical field. A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large [...]

2025-08-11

How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?

A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life. [...]

2025-08-11

The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns

A small but growing number of academics are improperly taking credit for articles, citations, and authorships, allowing them to appear prestigious without having conducted their own research. [...]

2025-08-11

Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes

“Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that’s no longer an assumption we can make.” [...]

2025-08-11

RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo

Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC. [...]

2025-08-11

Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean

Gulf of Maine will be site of safety and effectiveness testing. [...]

2025-08-11

An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

The Cleveland Clinic and startup Piramidal are developing an AI model trained on brain wave data to monitor intensive care patients. [...]

2025-08-10

This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. [...]