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Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician at New York University, had just spent months working on what he believed could be a life-defining mathematical proof. Then, during a…

A bizarre squid has been filmed haunting the northeastern Pacific Ocean for the first time.Researchers spotted the bigfin squid (Magnapinna) via remote video while using an…

Abnormally high temperatures on the Tibetan Plateau triggered two catastrophic rainfall events halfway around the world in California and nearby states in early 2017 and 2023,…

The world’s oldest known habitual drug use can be traced to an island in Indonesia, where ice age hunter-gatherers sucked on betel nuts — palm seeds…

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now hold conversations, reason through difficult mathematical equations, and respond in ways that seem more human. As AI grows more advanced,…

Archaeologists excavating in southwestern China have discovered a cave that was used by Denisovans for more than 100,000 years. Five human fossils, scores of stone tools,…

The moon may have formed in as few as five hours after the cataclysmic collision between Earth and a long-lost protoplanet, new simulations suggest. The surprising…

The patient: A 55-year-old man in BangladeshThe symptoms: The man went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain that he said began five hours prior…

In this excerpt from “The Carbon Wave” (MIT Press, 2026), author Leah Stokes, an associate professor of environmental politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara,…

Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it’s conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in vampires, karma and ghosts,…