BullshitBench tests whether AI models can detect nonsensical questions—or if they'll confidently answer them anyway. The ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

A Harvard study shows that snakes “stand” by focusing bending and muscle activity in a small region near their base.

Moore’s Law has shifted toward advanced packaging over the past few years, but the limits of that approach are just now ...

A viral image can make a practical design look baffling to millions of people at once. One mountain road loops across a dry ...

We can extract CO2 from the ocean. Can it turn into a business?

Tom Stanton focuses on building and testing various flying machines and other engineering feats. Colin Furze is known for his ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical questions. Three new proofs mark the first significant progress on the problem ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

When we want to weigh something, the process is simple. We place it on a weighing machine or on a traditional balance. The ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in ...

“Four minutes is too long.” That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare skin. This full-body massacre wasn’t the result of a camping trip ...