In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

You have documented how large language models (LLMs) risk hardwiring scientific inequalities into the texts that they help to produce (see, for example, Nature 645, 285; 2025). As the use of LLMs ...

Ray-Ban Display users will soon be able to reply to texts with hand gestures. Ray-Ban Display users will soon be able to reply to texts with hand gestures. is a news writer covering all things ...

Unlike some planes, trains and buses, heavenly bodies tend to show up on time. Astronomers know years — and even decades — in advance when major astronomical events will take place. NASA already has ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) on Friday said the Justice Department (DOJ) violated the law by releasing only a portion of information tied to its probe of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey ...

The clock is ticking on the deadline for the Justice Department to release its files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Since then, a string of court rulings has ordered the publication of some ...

Up to 3 million abandoned oil and gas wells litter the U.S. alone, and while many still contain oil or natural gas, the owners decided it wasn’t worth it to keep pumping. “They’ve tried everything,” ...

Discover how AI writing tools compare to human writers in digital writing. Explore the human vs AI content debate to see who really produces better results. Pixabay, tungnguyen0905 The landscape of ...

House Democrats revealed new photos and videos from Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. They also revealed that JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank have handed over records ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Astronomical events such as eclipses were central to Maya culture, reflected in the care the Maya took to keep accurate calendars to aid in celestial predictions. Among the few surviving Maya texts is ...