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Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity's journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it's changed our view of the Universe.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
A longstanding mismatch between theory and experiment motivated an exquisite muon measurement. At last, a theoretical solution has arrived.
An analysis of Indonesian cave paintings is reframing the history of human art, though whether the paintings really were created by human hands remains an open question.
The all-time record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds, set in 2009. What is the fastest time, ultimately, for an ideal human body?
Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?
Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.
In "Not Born Yesterday," author and cognitive scientist Hugo Mercier makes the case that misinformation is overrated — and other human foibles are underrated.
"If you’re training an AI to optimize for a task, and deception is a good way for it to complete the task, then there’s a good chance that it will use deception."
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
Hypersonic aircraft can fly at least five times the speed of sound. They would make for terrifying weapons.
9 minutes of cruel history may cure the anti-progress delusion.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today's best telescope.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn't the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
It's knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it's not magic that powers AI though; it's just math and data.
For its 2-year science anniversary, JWST has revealed unprecedented details in "the Penguin and the Egg." Here are the surprises inside.
As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Our relationship with chatbots is undergoing a sea change — here’s how the transformation will most affect you and your team.
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn't violate relativity.
We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.
The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical "proof" of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?
"Fasting...should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while."
On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.
Comparing Elon Musk's Mars rocket to NASA's new ride.
The standard picture of our Universe is that it's dominated by dark matter and dark energy. But this alternative is also worth considering.