If you use Freeview, you are urged not try and fix signal issued affecting the UK right now. Anyone with a Freeview TV in their living room is being urged to follow some important advice this week. It seems many…
The super-Jupiter Kappa Andromedae b has a mass around 12.8 times that of Jupiter. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Wiessinger) Since astronomers first looked beyond the solar system three decades ago to discover extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, we’ve…
The venom of black widow spiders can cause an array of symptoms in humans. (Image credit: Kimberly Hosey/Getty Images) The patient: A 37-year-old woman in California The symptoms: The woman visited the emergency room with severe cramps and muscle pain,…
Just like people, AI technologies like large language models (LLMs) and chatbots show signs of deteriorated cognitive abilities with age, a new study suggests. (Image credit: 3DSculptor/Getty Images) People increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for medical diagnoses because of…
Paper mills are undermining scientific literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions about human lives. (Image credit: Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd via Getty Images) Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world…
(Image credit: Piriya Photography via Getty Images) In this excerpt from “Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life” (University of Chicago Press, 20