Experts say allowing brief doze may help businesses and employees boost productivity as well as health

Since his emergence, Novak Djokovic has used the dizzying bar set by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal as inspiration, never doubting that he would one day rise above it. What once seemed unlikely eventually became inevitable. On another Sunday final in ...

Most wound dressings simply cover the injury and perhaps also kill harmful bacteria. The PAINT system goes much further, as it incorporates a pen that could one day allow doctors to paint a gelatinous healing ink right into wounds. Its name an acrony ...

After a successful mission to Mars, the Emirati space agency is planning a tour of the debris field between Mars and Jupiter, with a focus on one of its most intriguing objects.

The Witcher 3 has now sold 50m copies, cementing the title's position as one of the best-selling games of all time. Developer CD Projekt Red announced this latest milestone during its recent earnings call. Here, CDPR exec Adam Kicinski also reve ...

If you’re sharing your Netflix password with someone who doesn’t live with you, get ready to pay up — it will cost $7.99 per month extra to add another user to your account. On Tuesday, Netflix said it is launching its crackdown on illicit password s ...

The US justice department has acted appallingly in the Assange case. If he can be prosecuted, so can journalists everywhere

Is it bad when a new game feels like a rehash of one of the best games of all time? Six years ago, Nintendo launched its new Switch console alongside The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. That entry in the decades-old action-adventure series gave ...

America’s favorite game show of objective, blue-tinted truth has given us a new spectacle to behold. Jeopardy! Masters reconvenes six of the most prolific champions in the show’s recent history — Amy Schneider, Andrew He, James Holzhauer, Mattea Roac ...

In December 2022 scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a breakthrough in the decades-long effort to create an energy source based on the same nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun. An “engineering marvel beyond belie ...

We're still early in the snowball effect unleashed by the release of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT into the wild. Paired with the open-sourcing of other GPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer) models, the number of applications empl ...

Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.

Even if you don’t know it by name, the red supergiant star Betelgeuse is one of the most familiar sights in the heavens above—a gleaming ruddy dot at the shoulder of the constellation Orion. Although already quite difficult to overlook, Betelgeuse ha ...

Experts believe knowledge sharing and collaboration between countries and research organisations are the best ways to prevent the outbreak of future pandemics.

The SpaceX Dragon, with Expedition 69 crew members Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard, has successfully docked to the forward port of the Harmony m ...

While the conversations they produce may seem astounding, ChatGPT, Bard and other contemporary "AI" chatbots are not magic. Rather, they are merely examples of what computer scientists call "large language models," or LLMs. Essent ...

In January 2020, two Detroit police officers greeted Robert Williams and promptly arrested him for robbery. The reason was because of an algorithm.

Apple supplier Quanta Computer (2382.TW) plans to set up a factory in northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese government said. The company, a MacBook contract manufacturer, on Friday signed an agreement with the authorities of Nam Dinh province, 90 km (56 m ...

A Canadian woman says she caught a bear breaking into her car to guzzle dozens of cans of soda in the middle of the night. Sharon Rosel says her dog alerted her about 3 a.m. Thursday that something was outside her house. When she took a look, she saw ...

Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe's largest, began regular output early on Sunday, its operator said, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies.