Secure your ChatGPT account against AI‑driven cyber threats
OpenAI announces GPT‑5, a next‑generation AI model poised to advance natural language understanding and creative applications with improved accuracy.
An 'ice tsunami' in 2024 ripped through the Yukon with such force it tore up trees and the riverbed
Chunks of river ice tore down trees after a landslide caused a tsunami in the Yukon in December.
$100,000 quadrillion asteroid Psyche may be the product of metal volcanoes, study hints
The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface.
Miniature Skeleton: A ghostly 2,000-year-old party favor from a Roman banquet
This spooky skeleton was likely made to remind Roman banqueters that life is short.
Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after
Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice...
What if Christopher Columbus had never reached the Americas?
How would history have unfolded if Christopher Columbus had never reached the New World?
Physicists capture rare illusion of an object moving at 99.9% the speed of light
For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical i...
Hubble went supernova hunting — and found something unexpected: Space photo of the week
The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — whil...
Which planets are the youngest and oldest in our solar system?
There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
Hidden, supercharged 'thermostat' may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the...
Science news this week: Astronomers close in on comet 3I/ATLAS's origins, a strange gravity anomaly discovered off Africa and AI designs brand-new viruses
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Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm
A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,00...
Einstein's relativity could rewrite a major rule about what types of planets are habitable
Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest.
China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?
China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 — but is this going to cut it?
Extreme weather caused more than $100 billion in damage by June — smashing US records
After damaging wildfires in LA, tornadoes and series of floods, the first six months of this year smashed multiple extre...
Robots receive major intelligence boost thanks to Google DeepMind's 'thinking AI' — a pair of models that help machines understand the world
Two new AI models allow robots to perform complex, multistep tasks in a way that they couldn't previously.