2025-12-10

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic. [...]

2025-12-10

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires

We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) [...]

2025-12-10

Trump is slashing science funding. Tech billionaires are stepping in with AI

Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos are trying to recreate what capitalism destroyed. The key difference is artificial intelligence [...]

2025-12-10

‘It Was Nuts’: The Extreme Tests that Show Why Hail Is a Multibillion-Dollar Problem

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings. [...]

2025-12-10

Many States Say They’ll Defy RFK Jr.’s Changes to Hepatitis B Vaccination

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote against it. [...]

2025-12-10

The 70% factuality ceiling: why Google’s new ‘FACTS’ benchmark is a wake-up call for enterprise AI

There's no shortage of generative AI benchmarks designed to measure the performance and accuracy of a given model on completing various helpful enterprise tasks — from coding to instruction fol [...]

2025-12-09

Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30

Backed by powerful corporations, nations are giving public false choices: Environmental protection or economic growth. [...]

2025-12-09

The Webb telescope spots a supernova from 13 billion years ago

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray bur [...]

2025-12-09

Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete

Latest results from a recently discovered ancient Roman construction site confirm earlier findings. [...]