Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries'
Scientists analyzed nine so-called planetary boundaries and found humans are currently transgressing six
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Mathematicians Think Saudi Arabia's Ambitious 'Line' City Should Be a Circle
Despite efforts to make a planned city in the Saudi Arabian desert sustainable, its layout could create problems -
CDC Recommends Updated COVID Boosters for Everyone This Fall
Here’s what to know about the fall COVID boosters, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended for all people aged six months and older -
Neuropeptide Y May Have Made Humans Smart and Overindulgent
A brain chemical may play a role in the development of our complex brain, as well as our inclination toward obesity and addiction -
Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle
A trapezoid was key to discovering the elusive answer to a riddle about Möbius strips -
Candy Crush Is Complicated--Even from a Mathematical Point of View
Don’t be annoyed if you fail at a certain level of the popular game Candy Crush Saga; computers also have their problems with it -
Mistranslation of Newton's First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion -
Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests
Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways -
How Fires, Floods and Hurricanes Create Deadly Pockets of Information Isolation
Telecommunications grids are vulnerable to worsening climate disasters—which highlights the importance of one age-old survival system -
What Does It 'Feel' Like to Be a Chatbot?
Generative AI has made giant strides toward machine intelligence. Can machine consciousness be far behind? -
The Science of Shooting Stars
Earth is bombarded by millions of bits of cosmic debris every day. Here’s how to distinguish between the different types -
'Robo-Taxi Takeover' Hits Speed Bumps
Self-driving cars are expanding their ranges in a handful of U.S. cities, but the reality doesn’t yet match the hype -
Half the World's Population Faced Extreme Heat for at Least 30 Days This Summer
Nearly every person on the planet saw high temperatures that were made at least twice as likely by climate change this summer -
She Cracked the Mystery of How to Split the Atom, but Someone Else Got the Nobel Prize for the Discovery
Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born Jewish physicist, never received the Nobel Prize she deserved for her pioneering work on nuclear fission -
Watch a Comet's Tail Get Mangled by the Sun
Discovered only last month, Comet Nishimura is drawing attention before close approaches to the sun and Earth in the coming weeks -
Algorithms Are Making Important Decisions. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making -
What Are the Best and Safest Sunscreens?
What dermatologists say about sun sensitivity, cancer risk and the products they use for sun protection -
What's the World's Oldest Language?
Debate rages over which languages can claim to have the earliest origin -
Adorable Moth-Size Bats Found in the Pacific Islands' Largest Bat Cave
An expedition has discovered a remote Fijian cave with thousands of microbats thought to be nearly extinct -
Mistranslation of Newton's First Law Discovered after Nearly 300 Years
A new interpretation of Isaac Newton’s writings clarifies what the father of classical mechanics meant in his first law of motion
