
Nature-Inspired Gel Explains Why This Duck Is Stuck
Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs

Nature-Inspired Gel Explains Why This Duck Is Stuck
Today this material can seal pipes and brave the ocean. But someday it could be used in surgery or underwater repairs

Terracotta Is a 3,000-Year-Old Solution to Fighting Extreme Heat
Companies are adapting this humble clay-based ceramic to keep people cool—without electricity


Teens Are Flocking to AI Chatbots. Is this Healthy?
Kids crave approval from their peers. Chatbots offer an alternative to IRL relationships, but they can come at a price

Claude 4 Chatbot Raises Questions about AI Consciousness
A conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot raises questions about how AI talks about awareness.

U.S. Nuclear Energy Plans Could Proliferate Weapons
The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results

Hulk Hogan’s Biggest Impact May Have Been in Digital Privacy
Hulk Hogan, a larger-than-life wrestler known for his showmanship, succumbed to cardiac arrest after a career marked by digital hoaxes and a landmark battle against online exploitation

Can a Chatbot be Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Interpretability Research on Claude 4
As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their inner workings, raising profound questions about machine awareness, ethics and the risks of uncontrolled AI evolution

Why I’m Suing OpenAI, the Creator of ChatGPT
My lawsuit in Hawaii lays out the safety issues in OpenAI’s products and how they could irreparably harm both Hawaii and the rest of the U.S.

Could AI Have Prevented SkyWest Airliner’s Near Collision with a B-52 Bomber?
A SkyWest pilot’s last-second decision could have prevented a collision that air-traffic controllers may not have foreseen

AI’s Achilles Heel—Puzzles Humans Solve in Seconds Often Defy Machines
Discover why some puzzles stump supersmart AIs but are easy for humans, what this reveals about the quest for true artificial general intelligence—and why video games are the next frontier

China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool
China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Aims to Decode DNA’s ‘Dark Matter’
This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger everything from cancer to rare genetic disorders—and potentially revolutionizing personalized medicine