For much of the past century, science has often been presented as standing in quiet opposition to belief in God. The deeper we probed nature, the story went, the less room there would be for anything ...

A mock job advertisement that has done the rounds recently calls for a “killswitch engineer” for OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. The description requires the successful applicant to stand by servers all day ...

The State agency responsible for running air traffic control in the Republic was not informed of the presence of drones on the approach to Dublin Airport on the night Ukrainian president Volodymyr ...

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Blue-State and City Democrats Walk an Insurrectionary Fine Line New Body-Cam Footage Shows Minnesota Shooting from ICE Officer’s Perspective Perhaps a Cynical Reading of the Iranian Uprising Is No ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Some new players are entering the broadband arena, and that could actually be a good thing for established telecommunications companies. Citi analysts recently took a look at developments at SpaceX’s ...

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Several new projects turn waste into food for microbes that create PHA, a type of plastic that fully decomposes on its own, offering a less costly alternative to current bioplastics. This fork made of ...