Chill out: freezing temperatures produced by letting a stressed alloy relax
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AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection
Artificial Intelligence
A step towards building miniature human livers
Scraps of viral DNA in biobank samples reveal secrets of Epstein–Barr virus
Genetics
Biology
Alternative explanation for how celestial objects generate large-scale magnetic fields
Biology
Expert-level test is a head-scratcher for AI
Artificial Intelligence
Pesticide cocktails negatively affect soil biodiversity
A bendable AI chip for wearable technology
Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Damage from a heart attack comes from brain signals, mouse study suggests
Neuroscience
15 new drugs added to Medicare price negotiations
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday released the next 15 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiation, including for the first time treatments administered in...
Medicine & Health
Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them
Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washington,...
Technology
Software
Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing
Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the...
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Lab-grown organoids reveal how glioblastoma outsmarts treatment
UCLA scientists have developed advanced miniature 3D tumor organoid models that make it possible to study glioblastoma tumors in a setting that closely mirrors the...
Medicine & Health
Neuroscience
ADM to Pay $40 Million to Settle SEC Accounting Fraud Probe
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. agreed to pay $40 million to settle a two-year federal investigation into the crop giant’s accounting practices that rocked its share price and...
Business
Policy
Oversalting your sidewalk or driveway harms local streams and potentially even your drinking water
Snow has returned to the Philadelphia region, and along with it the white residues on streets and sidewalks that result from the over-application of deicers...
Software
Biology
Oil Hits Fresh Four-Month High as Trump Warns Iran to Make Deal
Oil rose to a fresh four-month high after US President Donald Trump threatened another attack on Iran, urging Tehran to negotiate a nuclear deal.
Energy
‘The Secret Fear of the Morally Depraved’
Adam Serwer, reporting from the streets of Minneapolis for The Atlantic, “Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong” (gift link): The secret fear of the morally depraved is...
Engineering
World News
Major US tobacco brands flout policies to restrict young people's access to their content on Instagram, finds study
Leading US tobacco brands are flouting platform and federal marketing policies designed to restrict young people's access to their content on the popular social media...
Software
Biology
Sleeping without pillows may lower harmful high internal eye pressure in people with glaucoma
Sleeping without pillows may help lower high internal eye pressure, the build-up of which causes optic nerve damage and glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness...
Biology
Acetaminophen and ibuprofen safe in first year of life, study finds
A new study supports the safety of the common painkillers acetaminophen and ibuprofen in the first year of life, and finds no link to eczema...
Moltbot, the AI agent that ‘actually does things,’ is tech’s new obsession
An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a...
Software
Technology
Dozens of CDC vaccination databases have been frozen under RFK Jr.
Nearly half of the databases that public health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were updating on a monthly basis have been...
Medicine & Health
Technology
Great white sharks grow a whole new kind of tooth for slicing bone as they age
Ken Bondy/iNaturalist, CC BY-NCA great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each slow, deliberate sweep...
Biology
Engineering
Watch: Why Trump is hitting the road to rally Americans
The BBC's White House reporter Bernd Debusmann explains why the president is refocusing his attention on the US economy.
Economics