Science

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less “shocked” than expected, missing the effects often seen in a meteorite impact.

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s Curiosity rover may have just solved the mystery.

Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results.

Katarina Zimmer put vinegar to the test as a cleaning product and discovered a wide range of benefits, for people and the planet.

Learn about the role of olfaction in friendship, which indicates that finding a friend is, at least in some sense, related to smell.

F rom certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses.

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language. Introduction Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math.

Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and other grammar nerds — we’re sorry.

A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year.

Anaheim, CaliforniaA Microsoft researcher today presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing.