Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

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 ...

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. It is a rare thing to see Josh Shapiro sweat. For all the grief the ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Activision has confirmed that, in fact, some Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 skins will carry forward to Black Ops 7--but they're limited to a handful of ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Is there a scientific ...