Happy 40th anniversary to the legendary video gaming titan, Famicom!

A trio of astrophysicists, two from Colgate University and the third from the University of Texas, has found evidence of dark stars courtesy of data from the James Webb Space Telescope. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

When the RIME antenna on ESA’s Juice mission failed to deploy a few days after launch, the engineering teams faced the mighty challenge to understand the fault and rectify it. At stake was a chance to see inside Jupiter’s mysterious icy moons.

Though SpaceX founder Elon Musk most often commands headline, the story of the private space startup hinges on a collection of key early figures. One is Tom Mueller, the famed space propulsion expert who ran development of SpaceX’s rocket engines and ...

It was early May in 2021 when patients flooded the emergency room at the University of California San Diego Health Center. "We were bringing in backup staff, our wait times had gone haywire, the whole system was overloaded," said Dr. Christ ...

Poems, essays and even books—is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university EPFL to dig a little deeper: For instance, can ChatGPT a ...

It's supported by something called a knowledge graph, which maps the connections between people, places, objects, and events.

Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding a climate disaster, but current carbon removal methods are proving to be inadequate and costly. Now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, have proposed a scalable sol ...

iPhone maker Wistron – which was the first company to produce iPhones in India – has exited the business, saying that Apple’s tough negotiations on price meant the company was unable to make a profit. The news comes at a time when the Cupertino compa ...

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” the conclusion to Marvel’s trilogy about an extraterrestrial crew of misfits, kicked off with $114 million in its domestic box office debut. Those ticket sales rank as the second-biggest opening weekend of the year, ...

The future is here, the ghostwriters are on the storm, and fake Drake is all too real. Earlier this month, a gloomy hip-hop track created with the help of artificial intelligence to jarringly replicate the voices of Canadian superstars Drake and the ...

Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankind´s fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, mythology, and folklore dating back at least to ancient Egypt. Now, Ray Kurzweil, a former Google engin ...

There are hundreds of environmentalists around the world who believe the bitcoin ecosystem could actually help reduce carbon emissions and increase reliance on renewable energy. Renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power, provide inconsisten ...

In people with advanced cancer, psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, LSD and MDMA may significantly reduce the severity of depression and anxiety symptoms. Roughly 10% of patients with cancer experience anxiety, while 20% report depression. However, cu ...

Why are so many CEOs ordering everyone back to the office? Because they think offices are "hardcore" and working from home is "soft."

In an unexpected and abrupt end to a legal battle that had fascinated the media industry, Fox Corporation and Dominion Voting Systems agreed to settle a much-discussed $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit mere hours after a jury had been seated to conside ...

The book is often described as the world’s first novel and a touchstone of Japanese literature. But some of its themes, including its take on gender and power, have echoed over centuries.

Here is a killer whale fact for you: despite decades of intensive research, we still do not know for sure what killer whales eat in most regions of the world. Killer whales are top predators, and the amount and types of animals they eat can greatly i ...

The dodo's genome has been sequenced from a DNA sample, but that's just the first hurdle to overcome in bringing a species back from the dead

Andrew Weil, an integrative medicine expert and employee of Arizona State University, shared a simple and effective method to fall asleep in 60 seconds.