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It powers a quasar as bright as 500 trillion suns.

Several companies are testing brain implants–why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink?

Each stretch can be done right in your seat.

Because taping together a bunch of 4x6 prints doesn’t make a very good blanket.

The relationship between Arisaema and its prey may be more nuanced than biologists once thought.

Secret castles, weird museums, and more could be hiding in your town.

In their quest to detect early outbreaks, virus hunters are sampling environmental DNA in water, dirt, and air.

Can species evolve fast enough to keep up with changing wildfire conditions?

The National & Regional winners from the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards take us from space to hot springs.

Using an app developed by Inuit in Nunavut, Indigenous communities from Alaska to Greenland are harnessing data to make their own decisions.

See if you qualify to be a volunteer for a yearlong stint.

Researchers used Midjourney’s AI image generators to illustrate the fantastical rodent beside incoherent strings of text.

Get your most important photos off your phone and into the real world with the aim of a dedicated photo printer.

Generative AI videos advanced from comical to photorealistic within a single year. This is uncharted, dangerous territory.

Come one, come all, and come together with couples-friendly sex toys that make the horizontal tango even spicier.

The data came from a now-defunct NASA mission and was collected by the Faint Object InfraRed Camera.

The reptile specimen reveals its true colors (black paint) after baffling paleontologists for almost a century.

Surgeons in Nebraska controlled spaceMIRA from 250 miles below the ISS as it cut through simulated human tissue.

It is carried by small mammals like shrews and voles and can spillover into humans in rare cases.

Every year, the country’s fishers accidentally catch millions of seahorses. Where they all go, nobody quite knows.