Everything in biology ultimately boils down to food and sex. To survive as an individual you need food. To survive as a species you need sex. Not surprisingly then, the age-old question of why giraffes have long necks has centered...
The best graduation speeches dispense wisdom you find yourself returning to long after the graduation tassels are turned. Take the feel-good life advice in Baz Luhrmann’s song to a class that graduated 25 years ago. Only on a recent...
Why are babies born prematurely? Researchers still don’t really know. Obstetricians are very good at managing the process of birth. But when it comes to predicting whether a baby will be born in a timely manner, the science is still...
China's Chang'e-6 probe has lifted off from the far side of the moon, starting its journey back towards Earth, China's national space agency announced on Tuesday. The probe's successful departure from the moon means...
DHAKA: Rush hour in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka is a cacophony of honking horns and idling engines. Auto-rickshaw driver Ripon, like countless others, weaves through the dense traffic with a practiced ease. But ask him about...
Last Thanksgiving, Brian Israel found himself being asked the same question again and again.The general counsel at the AI lab Anthropic had been watching dumbfounded along with the rest of the tech world as, just two miles south of...
A team of Chinese and Swiss scientists has jointly developed an energy-efficient sensing-computing neuromorphic chip that mimics the neurons and synapses of the human brain. The human brain, capable of processing incredibly intricate...
TAIPEI: Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its latest artificial intelligence processors on Monday and detailed its plan to develop AI chips over the next two years in a bid to challenge industry leader Nvidia. At the Computex Technology...
I became newly worried about the state of democracy when, a few years ago, my mother was elected president of her neighborhood garden club. Her election wasn’t my worry – far from it. At the time, I was trying to resolve a conflict...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life...
BEIJING: China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe looks set to begin its historic journey back to Earth from the moon's far side after collecting samples that scientists expect will help answer key questions about the early evolution...
ASML, the biggest maker of equipment used to manufacture semiconductors, said on Monday it has opened a test laboratory for its High NA EUV lithography equipment, together with Belgium chip research firm Imec. The laboratory in Veldhoven,...
While volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Greeley last fall, Rachel Borum heard the craziest thing. She, a single mother, could become a homeowner! Some of the families she met at the home-improvement thrift store had...
ISLAMABAD/ RAWALPINDI: The newly-lunched Pakistani satellite, PakSat MM-1, would be positioned in a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres above Earth and it would start delivery of services in August, scientists associated with the...
TAIPEI: Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on Sunday that the company's next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) chip platform was called Rubin and would be rolled out in 2026. The Rubin family of chips will include...
SAN FRANCISCO — If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, you've probably noticed a new character pop up answering search queries or eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds, with varying degrees of accuracy.It's Meta...
BEIJING: China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, overcoming a key hurdle in its landmark mission to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere. The landing...
GPT-4 didn't actually score in the top 10% on the bar exam after all, new research suggests.OpenAI, the company behind the large language model (LLM) that powers its chatbot ChatGPT, made the claim in March last year, and the...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the earliest-known galaxy, one that is surprisingly bright and big considering it formed during the universe's infancy - at only 2% its current age. Webb, which by peering across...
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet, Gliese 12b, situated 40 light years away, according to a recent study. International teams using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)...
You thought the living organism with ;"The largest genome might be the blue whale, an African elephant or perhaps a giant redwood tree? Not even close. A human being? Wrong again. That honor instead goes to a little fern that...
