AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows
ORCA benchmark trips up ChatGPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, and DeepSeek V3.2
AI + ML17 Nov 2025 | 18
Science
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme
Draft Horizon Europe plan cites lack of IP protections and Beijing's civil-military fusion strategy
Science12 Nov 2025 | 9
UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing
Years of development still needed but AI, 3D printing, and other alternative options on the horizon
Science11 Nov 2025 | 29
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing
Ohio State boffins coax shiitake and button varieties into behaving like memristors
Offbeat30 Oct 2025 | 26
Think tank decries science friction between countries, demands global cooperation
More countries are prioritizing national security over scientific discovery
Science28 Oct 2025 | 15
NARROWER TOPICS
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped
Devops27 Oct 2025 | 73
Brit boffins teach fusion plasma some manners with 3D magnetic field
MAST Upgrade team claims first suppression of pesky edge instabilities in a spherical tokamak
Science21 Oct 2025 | 38
AI boffins teach office supplies to predict your next move
What the world's been waiting for: a stapler with wheels to help humans afflicted by RSI
Offbeat17 Oct 2025 | 35
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
Nuclear power is getting hot, but don't hold your breath for everlasting batteries
Science11 Oct 2025 | 76
50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity
Probes face 26% funding cut as NASA grapples with shutdown chaos
Science10 Oct 2025 | 23
Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere
Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse, says astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell
Science06 Oct 2025 | 79
Brit scientists over the Moon after growing tea in lunar soil
It's one small sip for man...
Science22 Sep 2025 | 77
Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself
It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier
Science19 Sep 2025 | 12
Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants
Judge rules there’s no quick fix for 1,700+ axed grants, leaving labs scrambling for cash while the lawsuit plays out
Science19 Sep 2025 | 19
AI can now design functional viruses – not the computer kind, either
Inject this synthetic phage into E. coli and it kills better than the real thing
Science18 Sep 2025 | 33
Li-ion roars can predict early battery failure, MIT boffins say
Batteries emit distinct acoustic signatures depending on how they're failing – a bit like people, really
Science16 Sep 2025 | 21
Smart-blooded super soldiers: Coming soon from DARPA
We remind the world yet again that science fiction is usually a warning, not an aspiration
Science15 Sep 2025 | 33
Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart
But it reads at about the speed of punch cards
Storage12 Sep 2025 | 6
US House Appropriations Committee saves NASA budget, Prez holds the veto pen
Mars Sample Return mission still for the chop
Science12 Sep 2025 | 11
NASA finds best evidence of life on Mars so far
The usual cadre of scientists who disproved previous findings are stumped
Science10 Sep 2025 | 46
After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus
Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness
Science07 Sep 2025 | 76
Microsoft doing light work with Analog Optical Computer prototype
Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI
Personal Tech05 Sep 2025 | 7
UK DARPA clone spared savings squeeze while Treasury raided government
ARIA spent £16.5M, has £600M in the tank, and no one asked for it back
Science04 Sep 2025 | 6
China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build
700 meters under a mountain, a 20,000-tonne detector and a giant sphere await elusive particles
Science29 Aug 2025 | 11
Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests
Data contamination can make models seem more capable than they really are
AI + ML23 Aug 2025 | 18
Viking 1 at 50: NASA's first raid on the red planet
Launched in 1975, the probe outlived its 90-day mission by years and set the standard for Mars landings
Science22 Aug 2025 | 17
Space industry frets as UKSA set for bureaucratic re-entry
Government says move will cut red tape, but startups fear sector could be sidelined
Science20 Aug 2025 | 12
Physicist models new use for nuclear waste: Turning it into super-rare fusion fuel
Got a particle accelerator? Here’s your tritium startup idea
Science18 Aug 2025 | 24
Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super
The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science
Supercomputing Month13 Aug 2025 | 18
US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet
Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp?
Public Sector13 Aug 2025 | 6
Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor
Science13 Aug 2025 | 10
Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study
Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins
Science11 Aug 2025 | 21
North of England snubbed by UK government bag-a-boffin scheme
Home of Manchester Baby can't bid for talent, baby
Science08 Aug 2025 | 18
Lunar Trailblazer trails off as NASA loses probe to the void
Stricken spacecraft gives scientists the silent treatment
Science05 Aug 2025 | 6
Mars says hello as NASA's Europa Clipper warms up radar
Instrument works fine. Now, about those transistors
Science04 Aug 2025 | 17
Bitter fight over 2020 Microsoft quantum paper both resolved and unresolved
Deep dive Ground control to Majorana
Science31 Jul 2025 | 30
US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all
Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround
Science30 Jul 2025 | 12
NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon
If at first you succeed, have some more money
Science30 Jul 2025 | 3
Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds
‘I would have liked more flight time but happy with this’ says CEO of private rocket outfit
Science30 Jul 2025 | 38
US science left out in the cold amid plans to retire Antarctic icebreaker
Another week, another protest over budget proposals
Science29 Jul 2025 | 29
Cape Canaveral marks 75 years since its first rocket launch
Bumper's 1950 liftoff paved way for thousands of missions from iconic spaceport
Science29 Jul 2025 | 4
Biggest chunk of Mars on Earth sells for $5.3M at auction, cheaper than NASA's sample return mission
Videos Sotheby's also flogs off dinosaur skeleton for $26M
Science22 Jul 2025 | 7
The real reason why Trump is killing the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai'i
Column The Keeling Curve, measured there, is irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2 emissions
Science22 Jul 2025 | 255
NASA Goddard Center Director quits as agency staffers issue dissent letter
Updated Voyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research
Science22 Jul 2025 | 14
Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule
As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig
Personal Tech22 Jul 2025 | 107
Large Hadron Collider data hints at explanation for why everything exists
The universe contains more matter than antimatter, and a paper hints at one reason for that happy disparity
Science17 Jul 2025 | 75
JWST peers through dusty curtain to catch young star making baby planets
Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape
Science16 Jul 2025 | 5
Scientists spot massive black hole collision that defies current theories
Off-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars
Science15 Jul 2025 | 44
GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats
Networks14 Jul 2025 | 70
Please don't cut funds for space traffic control, industry begs Congress
TraCSS is like an FAA for space, and it's slated for the chopping block
Public Sector10 Jul 2025 | 7
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson backs plan to do a Jurassic Park on extinct birds
New Zealand’s Giant Moa stood over three meters tall but were easy prey
Science10 Jul 2025 | 59
Eggheads hold science fair on Capitol Hill to decry funding cuts
'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing
Science09 Jul 2025 | 26
One Big Brutal Bill: Ex-NASA brass decry Trump's proposed budget cuts
'If this is the priority for our tax dollars, we are doomed'
Science08 Jul 2025 | 40
Double-detonation supernova could explain why the universe is full of candles
Lucy in the sky with calcium
Science07 Jul 2025 | 27
Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box
A thermoelectric material called CHESS is pretty cool
Science03 Jul 2025 | 44
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets
Mysterious ‘Alloy 30’ gets smaller when heated, which could help stabilize super-sensitive space telescopes
Science02 Jul 2025 | 28
NASA gives Lunar Trailblazer a few more weeks to pick up the phone
Stricken probe giving US space agency the silent treatment
Science01 Jul 2025 | 2
AIs have a favorite number, and it's not 42
Ask a model to guess a number from 1 to 50 and it's likely to answer 27
AI + ML30 Jun 2025 | 31
Brain activity much lower when using AI chatbots, MIT boffins find
EEG and recall tests suggest people who use ChatGPT to write essays aren't learning much
AI + ML18 Jun 2025 | 58
Penn State boffins create silicon-free two-dimensional computer
Clock speed of 25 kHz means 2D CMOS system won't run Doom quite yet
Science16 Jun 2025 | 34
Japan builds near $700M fund to lure foreign academic talent
For researchers yearning to earn some yen and escape Trump 2.0
Science16 Jun 2025 | 13
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