BMW and Porsche are cutting 13,000 jobs by 2027 — and it’s not the AI story making headlines. Here’s the real reason, and what it means for planning ahead.
NASA Sent a Spacecraft to Rescue a Falling Telescope. Then the Rescuer Broke, Too.
NASA sent a spacecraft to rescue its falling Swift Observatory telescope. Then the rescue spacecraft itself lost control in orbit. Here’s what happened next.
AI Just Beat 100,000 Humans on a Creativity Test. Here’s What That Actually Means
A new study pitted 100,000 people against AI on a standard creativity test, and AI won on average. Here’s what that number does, and doesn’t, actually prove.
A New Study Just Proved Texting a Stranger Beats an AI Chatbot at Curing Loneliness
A UBC study found texting a real stranger beats an AI chatbot at easing loneliness. Here’s the surprising science behind why, and the ancient idea it echoes.
Scientists Found One Habit That Cuts Pain and Depression in Older Adults With Insomnia — No Pill Required
A University of Missouri study found a consistent daily routine reduces pain and depression in older adults with insomnia — a habit older than the study.
Scientists Just Built a Laser Out of Sound Instead of Light. It Can Measure Gravity Itself.
Scientists built a laser out of sound instead of light, precise enough to measure gravity itself — and it echoes one of the oldest claims about how the world began.
Scientists Just Built a Crystal That Controls Light Itself — In Trillionths of a Second
Scientists built the first photonic time crystal, controlling light itself in trillionths of a second — and it revived a strange, ancient claim about light.
Ice Age Humans Were Starving and Freezing 40,000 Years Ago. They Still Stopped to Carve a Bird the Size of a Thumbnail.
Tiny 40,000-year-old ivory bird figurines were just found in an Ice Age cave, and what it cost someone to carve them reveals something science can’t explain.
Physicists Proved Two Particles Stay Connected Through a City’s Busiest Cable
Physicists sent entangled photons through a city’s busiest internet cable and they stayed perfectly linked. Here’s what that quantum entanglement breakthrough means.
The Gut Bacteria That Predicts How Fast You Age — and It’s Invisible
A new study found specific gut bacteria predict how fast your body ages — and the deeper pattern behind it may be older than modern science ever imagined.