A new book from Rebecca Solnit, promising to bring us hope in these “difficult times”, is among our pick of popular science titles out this month – along with a guide on how to talk to AI, and a look ...

Le Ky Nam, an eighth-grade student in Hanoi, brought home a bronze medal from the International Artificial Intelligence Olympiad 2026, competing against students from leading technology nations.

After training neurons to play Pong, the team is back, and this time the brain cells are slaying demons with super shotguns.

A yearslong battle between a celebrated hydrologist and a respected environmental juggernaut led to accusations about ...

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His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement ...

Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct related to his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.

It was once a degree to some of the highest-paying jobs in the world, but now the University of California is seeing a drop in enrollment for computer science. Part of the reason is that tech ...

In 2025, Nature searched for the world’s happiest PhD students, anticipating that they might be in Finland. The Nordic nation of long winters and, apparently, the most heavy-metal bands per capita ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Thankfully, we can still turn to our bookshelves — and podcasts — to ground us. We tapped science doyenne Alie ...

It’s been an uneasy year for science. While there were significant milestones, like breakthroughs in gene editing for rare diseases and novel insights into early human evolution (including fire-making ...