On a chilly yet beautifully clear evening last November, I sat on a video call with colleagues and happened to mention the ...

One of the oldest meteor showers recorded by humans began this week—but don’t worry, there’s still plenty of time left to see ...

The universe doesn’t revolve around Kitt Peak, but the observatory southwest of Tucson is at the center of what could be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the cosmos in decades. Using an ...

PCWorld tested Claude’s new ‘computer use’ feature that allows the AI to control Mac interfaces by taking screenshots and performing tasks like opening apps and typing. The feature requires a paid ...

Scientists have been able to peer into Uranus’ upper atmosphere for the first time thanks to the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - and have documented the icy giant’s own version of the ...

Is it possible to prevent an heir from spending their inheritance on things to which we are diametrically opposed? I would hate for our money to end up in the hands of organizations that oppose ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

OpenClaw, a powerful new agentic assistant, has a thing for guacamole. This is one of several things I discovered while using the viral artificial intelligence bot as my personal assistant this past ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...

T his fall, a student told me she began using generative AI only after learning that stylistic features such as em dashes were rumored to trigger AI detectors. To protect herself from being flagged, ...

Turning your phone into a mobile hotspot by sharing its data connection is an undeniably useful feature, but it does come with certain drawbacks when compared to using a dedicated mobile router. I ...

Back in 2021, American space agency NASA announced it is working on the "first space telescope built specifically to study, in detail, starlight filtered through exoplanet atmospheres." Now, five ...