What if the future of artificial intelligence depends on your town running out of water?

1602 Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the...

Forget concrete and steel. The real future is wood.

Sometimes new problems need old solutions.

The Babylonians had quite a knack for organizing things.

For a few surreal weeks, the dystopian future ran inside a mini-fridge in San Francisco.

There's just something about the sea.

From Roman artifacts to Picasso's gowns, this museum lets you hold the past.

We should be more thankful for what's in our mouths.

The two companies have different approaches, but is one better?

Microbial inks may soon give buildings the power to breathe, heal, and fight pollution.

Uranus is heating up from the inside.

Generative AI turns to helping historians decipher ancient Roman history.

Solar is 40% cheaper, and onshore wind is under half the price.

His genome held strange secrets: a turbocharged alcohol gene, rewired brain chemistry, and a slow-burn caffeine receptor.

It's not The Handmaid's Tale, though that could also come in handy.

It's happening again.

When the prescription runs out, the kilos come back.

Could a machine outthink the brightest young mathematicians on the planet?

You gut microbes seem to produce more formate when you exercise and this may be key to fighting tumors.

It's a completely new way to interact with computers.

In principle, the method could be deployed tomorrow, researchers say.

This hydrogel could help millions of people lead a better life.

There's a big hidden cost to this practice.

What if the Stone Age wasn't really about stone?

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

What if the ingredients of life could assemble on a methane world?

Our best friend is even more awesome than we thought.

Would you like some garum with that?

Could we stop Parkinson's by feeding neurons copper?

This has big implications for our climate models.

A pollinator story featuring sex, deceit, and tequila.

Europe is quietly becoming a solar powerhouse.

How hot is too hot to survive in a city?

This sounds like science fiction, but the real magic lies underground

Our quest for dark matter is sending us on some wild adventures.

A new trend is making the rounds in a chimp community.

At just over six months old, the world's first de-extinct animals are exceeding expectations and demonstrating the remarkable growth patterns...

The visitor is simply passing through our solar system.

Sorghum bioink could be the next step towards printed food.

You're not bad at math. You've just not been zapped enough.

Our bodies have some surprising allies sometimes.

Powerful leaks, patchy action, and untapped fixes keep methane near record highs in 2024.

DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton reveals ancestry links between North Africa and the Fertile Crescent.

Unfortunately, there are few images we can respectably share here.

The zombie fungus from the age of the dinosaurs.

Most users don't even know this type of surveillance exists.

The story of the boomerang goes back in time even more.

The "search-and-destroy” microrobot system can chemically shred the resident bacterial biofilm.

The fluffier side of science.