In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants worldwide surpassed 8 billion, more than one per person on the planet. These assistants are helpful, polite — and almost always default to female.
Their names also carry gendered…

In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants worldwide surpassed 8 billion, more than one per person on the planet. These assistants are helpful, polite — and almost always default to female.
Their names also carry gendered…

Anthropic’s Claude machine learning model has boldly planned what no Claude has planned before – a path across Mars for NASA’s Perseverance rover.
Perseverance traveled about 400 meters on the Martian surface last month based on an…

In a groundbreaking effort to study the Sun up close, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured unprecedented data on the source of the solar wind. A research team led by the University of Arizona has now used these findings to reveal how…

Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, WOH G64 is a red supergiant and one of the most luminous, dust-enshrouded stars in its galaxy. In recent years, its unusual dimming and changing spectral features led some astronomers to suggest it was…

Garmin makes many of the best fitness trackers. There are dedicated models for divers, hikers, mariners and even truck drivers. But the number one audience for these watches? Runners.
Any Garmin watch available will make a decent run tracker. A…

January 31, 2026
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Software is becoming something you speak into existence
Coding for the rest of us finally feels possible now that tools like Claude Code turn plain English into working software

Manipulating how much carbon dioxide a person breathes can crank up the brain’s ‘sewage system’, researchers have found.
The proof-of-concept study, led by neuroscientists at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and The Mind Research Network in…

This week’s science news was all about the good, the bad and the ugly of technological progress, with a study warning of next-generation AI ‘swarms’ that could soon invade social media.
Signs of bots on social media are already evident, with…

January 31, 2026
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Largest galaxy survey yet confirms that the Universe is not clumpy enough
The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory

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