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Joseph McMullen uses AI to sort through terabytes of evidence, freeing him to focus on what the machines can’t find: the human story

When a patient shared the story of her sister’s death, an AI captured the clinical details—freeing physician Christopher Sharp to just be present

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain

Veteran teacher Jen Roberts explains why generative tools are more than just a platform for cheating—they’re a way to make classrooms fairer and more human

Transdisciplinary artist Stephanie Dinkins challenges us to rethink what we feed our machines—and asks what AI might become if it were trained on care

Physicists have observed the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect in real life

Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Horse—so saddle up for some equine science

We take a look at President Trump’s decision to reject a landmark climate finding, the cause of an unusual winter in the U.S. and the physics behind a bizarre ski jumping scandal

Space's microgravity appears to shift the location of the brains of astronauts—without a clear effect on their health

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot