AI is becoming part of everyday life, but its growing energy demands are putting increasing strain on the hardware behind it, ...

Most of us think of sitting as one big category. Too much of it is bad, and that is the end of the story. But research ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Jupiter has 79 known moons, the four largest of which are known as the 'Galilean moons'. These four worlds are among the most fascinating in our entire solar system. In this article, we will attempt ...

Microplastics are everywhere—in our water, food, and even the air we breathe. A new scientific review highlights a growing concern: microplastics and nanoplastics are accumulating in human brain ...

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

For most of astronomy’s history, the death of a massive star has been a loud event. A supernova flares so brightly it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. But a new study describes something far ...

The Ring Nebula is one of those sky objects people come back to again and again. It looks familiar, it photographs well, and it has been studied for generations. So when researchers pointed a new ...

This is an update to our initial look and technical review of Half-Life Alyx from 2021. Now that I have finally been able to complete the game, I can confidently say it’s nothing short of a ...

A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Breakthrough Listen, and global institutions has used deep learning on a dataset of 820 nearby stars and found eight new signals of interest. Despite ...

Driving while distracted is something we've all heard warnings about, but a new study shows just how often teens are looking at their phones while driving, and the numbers are alarming. It turns out ...

Generating electricity outside cities and transporting it into the city comes with a lot of power loss. Ideally, as much of it as possible should be generated locally. Scientists have found a way to ...