Is this a moon-sized primordial black hole adrift in the Milky Way?
A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are calling it “Phoebe”
Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain
Today’s Spellements
The oldest hominin footprints ever found are at risk of destruction, researchers warn
Astronomers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about the Milky Way’s black hole
Search for alien technology on interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty
Quantum computing is reaching its make-or-break moment
What’s a quantum computer good for, anyway?
NASA’s Artemis era may finally solve three major moon mysteries
Create as many words as you can!
Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.
Why we'll never live in space
The puzzle of the first black holes
What if we never find dark matter?
A new Ebola outbreak has killed hundreds—and the U.S. response is alarming experts
A new book debunks the myth of human selfishness—and makes the case for an ‘ecocivilization’
This researcher made up a disease to test AI. It failed miserably
Microsoft’s new quantum computer chip has a fundamental problem
Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence
Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
Mathematicians sign declaration to rein in AI use
A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math
What’s the biggest galaxy in the universe?
Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?
China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool
China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool
How Gödel numbers let you do math with math itself
By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved
