For much of the most recent glacial cycle, Aquaterra was mainly terra, but today it’s mostly aqua. If you’ve swum or boated ...

A personal memo I wrote down based on things I've been thinking about lately. It's super long, so plan your reading ...

Amid the daunting saga that is human evolution, the Neanderthals, so recent and closely studied, are in many ways the ...

Pick the wrong AES mode for a constrained radio chip and you burn silicon you don’t have. Pick the wrong one for a TLS-terminating load balancer and you leave throughput on the table. AES-GCM and ...

Some AI models behave like mechanics — fixing issues in other models that they neither designed nor fully understand. Credit: Mint Images/Getty. Researchers have used an artific ...

Network science has inspired the design of materials that spread out their deformation when a force is applied, have tunable ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney have identified a fundamental mathematical reason why artificial intelligence systems ...

GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen’s weights and raised MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% in author-run tests. How weight-space programming works—and its limits.

Astronauts on the International Space Station have a zero-g cup for their java. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center Coffee linked to significant new side effect, says massive study 'The execution shall ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX posted a third-quarter profit Tuesday that blew past estimates as revenue more than doubled thanks to its surging AI business, sending its shares up 2.5% in extended trading.

Almost every cell in our body contains around two meters (6.6 feet) of DNA, packed into a tiny nucleus. Yet for the cell to function, this enormous amount of genetic material must remain organized and ...