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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.
Don’t Get Too Attached to Jimothy
Urban wildlife biologists say the stumpy raccoon seems to have adapted well to his environment and spinal condition—but his internet fame presents a new threat.
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Is district cooling the solution we need for extreme heat in cities?
Networks of pipes carrying chilled water have proven to be an efficient way to cool hospitals and universities. Now, they are expanding into cities as heatwaves increase in the US and Europe
LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
July full moon delights skywatchers worldwide. Here are our favorite photos of the majestic Buck Moon
Wildfires and a balletic display, these are the best photos of the July Buck Moon 2026.
A SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon next week, and scientists aren't sure what to expect
Scientists are preparing to study the effects of human-made impacts on the moon when a spent SpaceX rocket stage impacts the lunar surface on Aug. 5.
TCL Tab A1 Plus Review (2026): Cheap Tablet That Doesn’t Feel It
For most people, the Tab A1 Plus checks all the boxes and is the best budget tablet you can buy, but don’t expect power or long-term Android support.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
First-of-kind Guillain-Barré drug switches off part of immune system
A treatment that turns off the bit of the immune system that goes haywire in Guillain-Barré syndrome may be the first targeted therapy approved for the autoimmune condition
Quantum computers are starting to become useful as scientific tools
Three problems that are out of reach for conventional computers have been cracked by quantum computers and show how important the machines could become for scientific research
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.
What if the brain does not create consciousness?
Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard problem” and will explore puzzling phenomena such as near-death experiences and terminal lucidity. His work points toward the possibility that consciousness may be woven into reality itself.
This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history
As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade systems, and lack of powerful royal elites suggest that equality may have helped fuel the ancient city’s success.
I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.
Rice bran compound may help ease irritable bowel symptoms
A compound in rice bran may help calm an overactive gut by reducing the calcium signals that cause intestinal muscles to contract. Ferulic acid suppressed contractions triggered by several chemical messengers in laboratory experiments. The discovery could eventually support new dietary approaches for diarrhea-related digestive disorders, although it may make constipation worse.
Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes. Researchers also found major genetic differences among isolated populations, suggesting new species may be forming right now.
NASA Johnson Interns Shaping the Future of Exploration
NASA interns at Johnson Space Center are applying their talents to real-world projects while working alongside the engineers, scientists, communicators, and innovators advancing human spaceflight. Learn how these students are gaining hands-on experience, contributing to real missions, and preparing to join the nation’s highly skilled and competitive aerospace workforce.   Meet the students behind the work and discover what inspired them to pursue careers at […]
Flat head syndrome discovered in Iron Age skeletons
Certain sleeping positions can lead to babies developing flattened heads, and an analysis of ancient skulls from Italy reveals that this condition affected people in the 9th century BC