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Anthropic's Mythos AI is being kept behind closed doors as governments assess what faster, AI-driven vulnerability discovery means for cybersecurity.

A new study explores how structured vibration patterns can represent personal memories and provide social support for public speakers.

A year after most robots failed to finish the Beijing race, nearly half the field autonomously ran a course of slopes, narrow passages, and 20 turns. The post A Humanoid Robot Beat the Human World Record for a Half Marat...

A preclinical study identifies a precision target to quiet the brain's immune system in Alzheimers without disabling its defense against infections.

A decade-long study links weekly metal exposure in infancy to adolescent behavioral health, identifying two critical "vulnerability windows" via baby tooth analysis.

AI latency acts as a social cue; users rate slower responses as more thoughtful and useful than instant ones.

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed - but a new test is paving the way to finally understanding natures most enigmatic force

Some innovations in physics come from entirely new technologies, others from fresh theoretical insights. Others still take shape by bringing together existing tools in new ways, working out how to combine them to outperf...

Building a dam in the Bering Strait might preserve the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but experts warn it could also threaten wildlife, Indigenous people and shipping - and could actually speed up its demis...

Children born during Superstorm Sandy shows that early behavioral skills act as a "buffer," preserving healthy limbic system activation after prenatal stress.

People adopt social conventions using the same two-stage cognitive process children use to learn grammar.

Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.

Thríhnúkagígur is a volcano near Reykjavík in Iceland with an empty magma chamber decorated with vivid colors that scientists and tourists can access via an open cable elevator.

Cities fed by the Colorado River have taken huge steps to reduce their water consumption over the past few decades, yet water shortages are projected to grow more intense. What can be done?

The climate event is poised to supercharge weather extremes and push global temperatures to new highs.

People with cognitive decline or early-stage dementia saw their symptoms improve when given bespoke treatment plans that targeted their personal nutritional deficiencies, ongoing infections and environmental exposures

A study by University of Wollongong (UOW) physicist Dr. Enbang Li has demonstrated that gravity can subtly influence the behavior of light, a breakthrough that could underpin future technologies for monitoring groundwate...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model unveils just how strange it might be

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage."

Here's all the stargazing gear you need for May's night sky. Be ready for two full moons, a meteor shower, and a pretty cool solar alignment.

The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the scope of physics research and enable new scientific discoveries. So far, rare isotopes have been pr...

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something bending the rules of gra...