ChatGPT is truly awful at diagnosing medical conditions
The large language model gets medical calls wrong more often than not.
By Ryan Heneghan published
Creatures that existed billions of years before plants and animals poised to become dangerous climate change winners.
By Peter Townsend Harris, Mark John Costello published
The carbonate compensation depth — a zone where high pressure and low temperature creates conditions so acidic it dissolves shell and skeleton — could make up half of the global ocean by the end of the century.
By Tia Ghose published
The moon was once thousands of miles farther away than it is now, and Earth's days were 2.2 hours longer, a new study finds.
By Deepa Jain published
A new James Webb Space Telescope analysis of the giant, metal-rich asteroid Psyche reveals signs of hydration in the form of rust. This could help pin down the mysterious rock's origins.
By Tantse Walter published
Review Will Suunto's Race push your sporting performance and help you reach personal bests like they claim? We think so.
By Tia Ghose published
An amateur fossil hunter in Mississippi found the first known fossil in the region from a mammoth — a well-preserved tusk that weighed about 600 pounds (270 kilograms).
By Ben Biggs published
Looking to inspire the next generation of curious minds? These are our picks of the best popular science books for children of all ages.
By Lucien Heurtier published
The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe.
By Andrey Feldman published
The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate — and tiny wormholes that bore through the fabric of space-time might be to blame, a new study proposes.
By William Mark Stuckey published
The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein's theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest.
By Steve Benford, Praminda Caleb-Solly published
Telsa's Optimus humanoid robot will be among the first such machines to flood our lives when it launches next year, with more set to follow.
By Drew Turney published
Most people much prefer algorithms to make decisions about the redistribution of resources — but they see the outcomes of human-made decisions as more favorable.
By Peter Ray Allison published
The new device, called a magnetic tunnel junction, can be harnessed to pack more computing power onto a chip than was previously thought possible.