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Science itself isn’t the problem how it’s communicated often is. Complex findings are simplified, incentives distort messaging, and uncertainty gets buried. This video explores why well-intentioned ...

It’s not just humans who suffer from leading one another astray. So do fish, flies and even bacteria. By Carl Zimmer Earlier this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine ...

They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

Filming a science programme. Image by Tim Sandle. Filming a science programme. Image by Tim Sandle. High-quality science-related documentaries are essential in the age of Trump infused misinformation, ...

At SAP TechEd 2025 in Berlin, a troika of technical executives unveiled artificial intelligence (AI)-driven features in the supplier’s SAP Build platform, disclosed more agents in its Joule AI ...

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It was a fateful day for Doc Brown in 1955 when he fell off his toilet, hit his head on his sink, and woke up with the image of the flux capacitor burned into his brain. That was the moment that ...

CU Boulder researchers maneuver a robot through fallen rock and debris in an experimental mine tunnel in Colorado. Somewhere in the darkness ahead, potential survivors could be running out of air. The ...

A viral story raised the idea of using robots outfitted with artificial wombs to incubate human babies from conception to birth. If such technology existed, would you consider using it? When you ...