As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels
Indonesia is moving its capital. Will a forest pay the price?
Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that’s quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city
See the first new species of cat discovered in more than a century—it’s adorable
The cat is smaller than a house cat but has the spots of a leopard
North Korea’s nuclear tests have turned this mountain into an earthquake hot spot
Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017
What your dog really thinks about you
Science is helping to peel back the layers of how dogs process the world around them
What eyewitness accounts tell us about the science of memory
The malleability of memory once cast doubt on eyewitness identification in criminal cases, but new research reveals how eyewitness memory can be used accurately
Can independent AI auditors keep up with frontier AI development?
Independent auditors are emerging as a key part of plans to rein in frontier AI. But the systems are evolving faster than the methods used to evaluate them
OpenAI cracks the hidden math that keeps your texts from turning to gibberish
The surprising real-world applications of high-dimensional sphere packing and the 48-year-old barrier that OpenAI just broke
AI labs are claiming “AGI” is imminent—but does that mean what we think it means?
Artificial general intelligence was once a term confined to technical science papers, but its meaning has slipped
Missing pages of priceless missing Henry VIII–era manuscript finally found
The pages come from a copy of Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ that once belonged to John Gage, an enforcer in Henry VIII’s court and a key figure in the historical dissolution of the monasteries