Alibaba’s Qwen team trained AI agents to predict environment responses rather than act directly, improving performance across seven benchmarks. This method byp…

Euclid’s infrared image of the Milky Way’s core reveals stars, star-forming regions, and rogue planets through cosmic dust, providing critical data for Roman’s…

Scientists aim to eradicate the screwworm, a flesh-eating pest harming livestock, using a new gene-editing tool called an "extinction drive." This technology c…

Onion-induced tearing varies widely among people due to sensitivity differences to syn-Propanethial-S-oxide, a chemical released when cutting onions. Understan…

Scientists observed water molecules at -42°C rapidly switching between two distinct arrangements, suggesting water may exist in two phases. This discovery coul…

Genetic analysis reveals late Neanderthals in Belgium and France had unexpected genetic diversity, contradicting inbreeding theories. This suggests their extin…

Philosophers Schwitzgebel and Pober argue consciousness could exist in forms we can’t comprehend, not just human-like brains, challenging how we search for ali…

Fluctuating oestrogen levels during the menstrual cycle increase brain drug delivery by up to 50% in female mice, suggesting dosing precision may need adjustme…

South Africa’s Cape leopards are genetically distinct and half the size of other leopards after 20,000 years of isolation, yet they retain high genetic diversi…

AI companies struggle because their models need clean, specialized data from messy web and private sources, so a new "data infrastructure layer" is emerging to…

655 million people lack electricity, with 560 million in sub-Saharan Africa; meeting the 2030 energy access goal requires urgent action. Progress is slow due t…