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This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass.

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WIRED Science

This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

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New York Times Science

A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.

13 hours ago

New York Times Science

A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards

Futurism

CrowdStrike Infested With "Self-Replicating Worms"

A year after a glitch at cybersecurity company CrowdStrike triggered a global computer outage affecting millions of computers, the software vendor is being forced to contain a new threat: a swarm of self-replicating worms. As first reported by investigative cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, CrowdStrike ...

13 hours ago

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CrowdStrike Infested With "Self-Replicating Worms"

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Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

A new viral video shows a kickboxing humanoid robot making a miraculous recovery after it slipped on a floor tile that came loose underneath it. The clip shows the Unitree G1 robot temporarily fall onto its back — only to bounce back onto its feet in less than a second. The robot also easily defended ...

14 hours ago

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Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

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Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

Welcome to the future, where the vibes are bad in almost every meaningful respect but where you do, at the very least, get to "vibe code," or use an AI model to write code and even build entire pieces of software. (Soon we may even be able to "vibe think.") But rarely is the process so smooth. The jury's ...

16 hours ago

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Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

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Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death

The estate of singer and cultural icon Whitney Houston is reviving her legendary vocals with AI for an upcoming orchestral performance 13 years after her tragic death. The event, called "The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration," used "stem separation technology" courtesy of AI-powered vocal remover ...

21 hours ago

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Startup Using AI to Bring Whitney Houston Back on Tour 13 Years After Her Death

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AI Now Claiming to Be God

A new slew of religious smartphone apps are allowing tens of millions of users to confess to AI chatbots, some of which claim to be channeling God himself. As the New York Times reports, Apple's App Store is teeming with Christian chatbot apps. One "prayer app" caled Bible Chat, claims to be the number ...

22 hours ago

Futurism

AI Now Claiming to Be God

New York Times Science

Building an Octopus Dictionary, One Arm Movement at a Time

Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Building an Octopus Dictionary, One Arm Movement at a Time

Futurism

Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Parents of children who died by suicide following extensive interactions with ...

1 day ago

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Parents Testifying Before US Senate, Saying AI Killed Their Children

New York Times Science

A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth

National Science Foundation

NSF invests $6.2 million in EPSCoR Research Fellows

The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $6.2 million in 24 exceptional researchers who have been selected as NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research...

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National Science Foundation

NSF invests $6.2 million in EPSCoR Research Fellows

New York Times Science

Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

Ten years ago, astronomers made an epic discovery with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Cosmology hasn’t been the same since, and it might not stay that way much longer.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Happy 10th Birthday to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. Now Drop Dead.

WIRED Science

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

At WIRED Health 2025, Orchid CEO Noor Siddiqui and the genomics pioneer George Church laid out their view of the future of genetic screening.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

WIRED Science

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit, biochemist David Liu said his lab is on the verge of revealing a new gene-editing technique that could target multiple unrelated diseases.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

WIRED Science

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More

This year’s WIRED Health summit in Boston featured Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, and a day’s worth of insights and provocative conversations.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, Crispr Breakthroughs, and More