11+ hour, 16+ min ago   (962+ words) In 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six previously unknown moons around Neptune. Five of them are tiny satellites that travel just beyond the planet’s main rings. Their small size and great distance from Earth have made them especially difficult to study in detail....

11+ hour, 31+ min ago   (176+ words) When it was reported last month that Anthropic’s Claude had resorted to blackmail and other self-preservation techniques to avoid being shut down, alarm bells went off in the AI community. Anthropic researchers say that making the models misbehave (“misalignment” in…...

12+ hour, 4+ min ago   (771+ words) You don’t need to know any math to understand why the Millennium Prize breakthrough matters. It’s proof of AI’s accelerating and terrifying progress. Why should we care that AI is suddenly insanely good at math? It’s a question that I’ve…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (312+ words) Explanation: Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by dark dust lanes and blue star clusters lend this galaxy its popular name,…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (845+ words) “Climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” — Greta Thunberg, 2018 “100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years.” — Paul Ehrlich, 1970 “No other human activity poses this…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (292+ words) Warnings against artificial intelligence going rogue and leading to a disastrous outcome for humanity have grown louder throughout 2026. Alarm bells are even being rung by those helming the technology, including OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Anthropic honcho Dario Amodei. This…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1360+ words) One of Anthropic’s top safety researchers says there is a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill every human within the next decade. The extraordinary warning came after a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher resigned, accusing both companies of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1019+ words) But no. According to Berkowitz, “Biological sex is as nuanced as gender.” He’s written a whole book about it. The thesis is in the title: The Binary Delusion: How Biology Defies the Myth of Two Sexes. As he explains in…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (898+ words) Most Christians believe the universe is billions of years old. Some treat the six days of creation as a metaphor. Others latch onto explanations such as Gap Theory or Day-Age Theory to reconcile. But there is one theory that I’ve…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (131+ words) Explanation: Is this star winking at us? The central object in today’s animation is not one but two stars. XZ Andromedae, indicated by the bold lines, is an Algol-type eclipsing binary with a nearly edge-on orbit from Earth’s perspective. The…...