16 breathtaking images from the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest

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Meet the Oxbridge graduates who can’t get a (good) job

Royal Navy robotic sub controlled from 10,000 miles away

A Murder in Silicon Valley

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

Ultra-processed foods might not be the real villain in our diets

Dedicated volunteer exposes “single largest self-promotion operation in Wikipedia’s history”

The hardest working font in Manhattan

This Scary State of Consciousness Can Trick Your Brain Into Seeing “Demons.” A Neuroscientist Explains Why.

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Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

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Ice moves by itself on experimental metal surface

‘As urgent and relevant today as it ever was’: The radical manifesto hidden in Georges Seurat’s 1884 masterpiece

Michael Rockefeller’s Strange Disappearance: A Mystery That Still Haunts

On this day in 1977 SETI received a strong, still inexplicable signal

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New Physics-Inspired Proof Probes the Borders of Disorder

An Archaeology Student Found a Medieval Gold Artifact During Her First Dig

Vietnam War: A refugee returns with his son on the 50th anniversary

‘I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down’

Clear skies on Mars as NASA rover captures one of the sharpest panoramas of the Red Planet ever taken

A Quantum Gas That Refuses to Warm Up

Europe scorched by wildfires – pictures from space

Is water really a necessary ingredient for life? Aliens may swim in truly exotic pools

“This is the first time that complete sentences of inner speech have been decoded in real time from a large vocabulary”

Dog finds human remains in Birmingham for fourth time in a year

The Mayan civilization experienced 44 years of drought in its last two centuries

She was a quiet bird expert. Then she was called to investigate a murder in Maine.

Some People Just Don’t Like Music—and Now We Might Know Why

Image: JWST’s view of the Ring Nebula

Lip balm’s surprising history from earwax to Lip Smackers

Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Roman ‘Drug Stash’ Hidden Inside a Bone

ADHD medication’s striking ties to crime, traffic accidents and injury

When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska—on purpose

Companies Are Pouring Billions Into A.I. It Has Yet to Pay Off.

The shape of the universe revealed through algebraic geometry

U.S. Pilot Stranded in Antarctica Says It’s ‘Isolating and Lonely’

An interstellar mission to study a black hole up close: Science fiction or reality?

Scientists Use Earth’s Shadow to Hunt for Alien Probes

‘I gave the zoo my daughter’s beloved pony to be fed to the lions’

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

Scientists reversed memory loss by powering the brain’s tiny engines

See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky

On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville

How We Became Captives Of Social Media

Evacuations in Alaska after glacial melt raises fears of record flooding

Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era

This Is What Happens Inside Lava Planets

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Worm invades man’s eyeball, leading doctors to suck out his eye jelly

Comet’s Water Reveals Clues About Life on Earth

After Mount Vesuvius Erupted, Pompeii’s Poorest Survivors Lived Amid the Rubble of the Ancient City for Hundreds of Years

Giant Einstein ring reveals one of the Universe’s biggest black holes

Fast Radio Burst Source Traced Record Distance Across The Universe

Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b’s in “blueberry”?

Archaeologists Found a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic of Flip-Flops

Jellyfish swarm forces shutdown of French nuclear plant