Stem cells used to partially repair damaged hearts
When we developed the ability to convert various cells into a stem cell, it held...
The long-planned return of two astronauts from space is now a political issue
On Thursday NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are scheduled to don spacesuits to...
Trump admin rescinds controversial funding freeze after two days of protest
The Trump administration today withdrew a controversial order to freeze funding for a wide range...
Copying Musk, Trump admin offers federal workers buyouts to resign
Echoing Elon Musk’s approach to thinning out Twitter’s staff in 2022, Donald Trump’s plan to...
The questions the Chinese government doesn’t want DeepSeek AI to answer
DeepSeek has quickly upended markets with the release of an R1 model that is competitive...
GOG revamps its “Dreamlist” feature to better pry old games out of publishers
PC game storefront GOG, which has recently pledged to focus on restoring and preserving Good...
Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
Starting a few days after the Trump inauguration, word spread within the research community that...
Review: Nvidia’s $999 GeForce RTX 5080 falls disappointingly short of the 4090
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card was faster than the RTX 3080 card it replaced....
Climate change set the table for Los Angeles wildfires
Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, and windy...
Trump’s new head of DOT rips up US fuel efficiency regulations
US President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Department of Transportation was sworn in to...
AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission
The concept of flying out to distant asteroids and mining them for precious metals is...
Streaming prices climb in 2025 after already surpassing inflation rates
If you were hoping for a respite from rising streaming subscription fees in 2025, you’re...
Trump executive order calls for a next-generation missile defense shield
One of the new Trump administration’s first national security directives aims to defend against missile...
Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social...
How does DeepSeek R1 really fare against OpenAI’s best reasoning models?
It’s only been a week since Chinese company DeepSeek launched its open-weights R1 reasoning model,...