“Computer science isn’t the ticket to the American dream like people thought it was.
Following Ukraine's recent drone strikes on Russian data centers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested there was "less hate, less division and fewer provocations" online because of fewer Kremlin-linked bot networks spreading misinformation and disinformation.
Infecting a maize plant is no simple task for a fungal pathogen such as Ustilago maydis. A group of researchers led by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has now uncovered how the fungus detects that it has successfully entered its host. This signal triggers changes in fungal growth, as...
An AI agent in Brooklyn needs a photo of a flooded street in Lagos. Not tomorrow — in the next hour. It doesn't care about visas, embassies, or whether the person holding the phone has a work permit.
Using NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft, astronomers have studied a horde of mysterious "failed stars," or brown dwarfs, not-so-stellar loners that wander the darkness of space alone.
Aleksandr Sorokin ran 198. 6 miles in 24 hours. We asked scientists and elite runners what it takes to push the limits of human endurance.