As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Big Tech invest billions in developing state-of-the-art large-language models, a small group of AI researchers is working on the next big thing.
Computer scientists like Fei-Fei Li, the…
While walking through Michigan’s Hines Park last month, sisters Jessica Lee and Kimberly Ann spotted something seemingly heartwarming in a nearby river. Two ducks swam side-by-side as if they were family members, but the sisters noticed a…
Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, an extinct volcano three times as tall as Mount Everest. There are several other examples of volcanoes and volcanic features across the Red Planet, though new research…
Scientists have extracted genetic information from 400 medieval burials that date between the eighth and eighteenth centuries. Their work, which represents a large-scale analysis of DNA from medieval times, has helped clarify how populations in…
The northern lights could put on a show tonight and through the weekend as ongoing geomagnetic storm conditions driven by turbulent space weather may push aurora farther south than usual.
Earth is currently reverberating from a solar storm impact…
Engineers have designed a compact, battery-powered radio probe that could help unlock the secrets of alien planets.
The proposed small probe, known as the Gravity Imaging Radio Observer (GIRO), would use gravity fields to precisely map the…
Scientists have scored a pristine view of a pair of exotic worlds orbiting a star more than 300 light-years away — one with sand-like clouds and another surrounded in space by moon-making material.
The…
In 2011 and 2015, two approximately 14,000-year-old pups were pulled from northern Siberia’s permafrost roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the village of Tumat. Within the same layers of icy soil,…
Around 45,000 years ago, something unusual occurred in Ice Age Europe. A wave of modern humans, having migrated from the southeast, arrived in a continent already populated by Neanderthals. These early humans, who shared many physical traits…
How groups travel is an interesting part of animal behavior. Elephants can form circles to protect younger members of the herd, while whales can coordinate enough to make spiral rings of bubbles to catch prey. New research has revealed why…