Residents in the Tennessee Valley expressed various concerns about data centers, prompting Meta to open its Huntsville ...

Agentic systems are goal-directed. Their behavior is shaped by objectives that may require planning, monitoring, adaptation, and revision over time. Goals are often underspecified or conflicting, ...

Whenever a cell divides, it has to split its chromosomes perfectly between two daughter cells, and even a single mistake can be disastrous. Now, researchers from Japan have found that one of the key ...

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic upended education and led to nationwide learning loss, Wyoming’s standardized testing ...

The number of counties with restrictions for data center developments is expanding. The policies range from bans and temporary moratoriums to regulatory ordinances to limit where the high-tech ...

From gene editing to cryonics to uploading our brains to the cloud, here are the ways we might one day live forever ...

When automating tasks with AI agents, divide the work into "one role per task." For each role, define what to read, what to ...

Infrared light is invisible to us. Yet under the right conditions, pulses of near-infrared light can give rise to a visible image in the eye—one that behaves in ways that defy intuition. ICTER ...

Horror movies seem an unlikely venue for spiritual reflection, but the good ones make the darkness visible, give us a hero to ...

A critical narrative review finds that AI improves detection in mammography and colonoscopy but does not improve complex diagnostic reasoning, while experimental evidence raises concerns about ...

Dating apps are trying to fill the gaps between real life dating and swiping. Some users are outsourcing online dating to AI.

Autonomous research agents, verifiable AI safety, and two-way brain-computer interfaces are among 10 science and technology ...