Immortal stars could live forever by ‘eating’ dark matter
At the centre of the Milky Way, stars look younger than they should NASA, Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech) Stars…
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How Humility Can Restore Trust in Expertise
Whom would you trust more: an expert who seems to have all of the answers or one who admits what…
Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?
Wikipedia already shows signs of huge AI input Serene Lee/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The arrival of AI chatbots marks…
Shark Week team discovers unusual ‘black makos’ off California coast
In 2019, shark tagger Keith Poe was working off the coast of California when he hooked a surprisingly big “black…
China launches world’s first robot that can run by itself 24/7 — watch it change its own batteries in unsettling new footage
Walker S2 – The World’s First Humanoid Robot Capable of Autonomous Battery Swapping – YouTube Watch On There are many…
Divers discover surprising changes to offshore kelp forest
This photo by underwater photographer Jennifer Adler shows Brown University marine biologist Jon Witman tossing a tool called a quadrat…
Landmark Langlands Proof Advances Grand Unified Theory of Math
One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course…
A plan to shoot 450,000 owls—to save a different owl—could be in jeopardy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers and animal rights advocates, together with others, is creating storm…
What characterises a dark empath? The science behind the buzzword
Luc Kordas/Millennium Images, UK Many of us love a new way of labelling the people in our lives, and over…
Who Was First in Flight? This 1925 Scientific American Piece Dives into a Museum Disagreement
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You may have noticed we’ve been taking…