What the ancestor of all currently living organisms was, what natural and computer viruses have in common, what dinosaurs lived on the territory of modern Russia, how beehive is organized from the ...

A new study claims that Yunxian-2, a human skull found decades ago in China, suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought. It also ...

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple prescription are becoming harder, sometimes impossible, to cure.

In the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All," computer scientists Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares speculated that superintelligent AI will wipe us all out.

North Korean-linked crews connected to the pervasive IT worker scams have upped their malware game, using more advanced tools, including a backdoor that has much of the same code as Pyongyang's ...

America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments.

The sky above us is a complex ecosystem, just like the land and sea. A new field of research is bringing a fresh understanding of the birds, bugs and other species that live there ...

Digimon's newest anime is right around the corner, and its very different take on the franchise might help revitalize it amid the competition.

Notably, the Imperial researchers also tried various LLMs not specifically designed for scientific reasoning. These included systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Google’s general-purpose ...

Their research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, suggests that tiny primordial black holes (PBHs) could trigger these explosions without any companion star. Primordial black holes are thought ...