Science

A familiar mouth bacterium best known for causing cavities may also be quietly influencing the brain. Scientists found that when this microbe settles in the gut, it produces compounds that can travel through the bloodstream and harm neurons involved in…

Researchers discovered that a poison frog species described decades ago was based on a mix-up involving the wrong museum specimen. The frog tied to the official species name turned out to be brown, not the colorful animal shown in the…

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term “enshittification” in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse’s elusive companion star, named Siwarha.

SpaceX recently stacked the giant Super Heavy booster that will help launch the upcoming 12th test flight of the company’s Starship megarocket.

Generative AI is becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. Large language models like ChatGPT can help answer questions, write email, and solve problems at seemingly lightning speed, pulling from enormous datasets to engage in conversations with their users. Generative AI tools…

Two things are clear from a University of Michigan analysis of nearly 200,000 Twitter posts between 2012 and 2022. One, people are really good at identifying peak pollen season: The largest volume of tweets about pollen often lined up with…

Roguelite structure, mysterious narrative, and breakneck third-person shooter action come together once again in Housemarque’s Saros.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new “postcard” from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic look at the rugged Martian landscape it’s been exploring for more than a decade.

Someone in the office makes a racially insensitive comment, and a white co-worker asks a Black colleague to help correct the offender.