Collaboration brings together deep mission readiness expertise and frontier AI models to support trusted decision-making at scale Virtualitics, the category leader in AI-native readiness solutions for government and critical infrastructure, and OpenAI today announced a… Read more: Virtualitics and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration

Feeling grateful for all the wonderful ways AI has changed your life yet? Jeff Bezos thinks you should be. On Wednesday, the Amazon founder brushed aside fears that AI would replace people’s jobs, arguing instead… Read more: Jeff Bezos Lectures the Public, Saying They Should Be Grateful for the Wonders of AI

NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space again. It’s an old problem that NASA recently hoped was resolved. For more than half a decade,… Read more: Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem. The company… Read more: OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem

Stephen Ladyman suggests a question to ask artificial intelligence systems, while John van Someren is suspicious of advice he got from the AI assistant Claude There is a test that Prof Richard Dawkins might use… Read more: A musical Turing test for AI consciousness | Letters

When the action film Top Gun hit the big screen in 1986, critical reviews were mixed, but audiences were thrilled. The film racked up $358 million globally, making it the highest-grossing film of that year.… Read more: Top Gun turns 40

The tech giant Meta fired about 8,000 workers yesterday — about 10 percent of its staff — and reassigned 7,000 more to AI projects. The company’s remaining workers continue to have every click of their work lives… Read more: Zuckerberg Tells the Tattered Remainder of His Workers That He Won’t Conduct Another a Mass Firing for at Least Seven Months

Glucose tracking is moving beyond diabetes care as CGMs, AI platforms, and wearable sensors reshape personalized health data and wellness tools. The post Glucose Tracking Is Turning Into the Next Big Health Data Platform appeared… Read more: Glucose Tracking Is Turning Into the Next Big Health Data Platform

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Starlink’s revenue role, major AI spending, Starship costs, Musk’s control, and legal risks facing investors. The post Historic SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Starlink, AI, and Mars Ambitions appeared first on TechRepublic.

I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.

Plug-in hybrid powertrains were developed to be the best of both worlds: a combustion engine and fuel tank that can handle those longer journeys exactly the same as a non-hybrid car, with an electric motor… Read more: Plug-in hybrids get plugged in more than you might think

The US government will take equity stakes worth a total of $2 billion in a slew of quantum computing companies, including a startup backed by a firm with links to the Trump family and one… Read more: US government takes $2 billion equity stake in nine quantum computing firms

Cottonbro Studio/Pexels, CC BY Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language… Read more: AI can design cities, but can it understand what matters to people? 10 ways to keep humans in control

On a school night in early December, a freshman at Radnor High School in Pennsylvania wrote in Snapchat messages to his friends that his parents took his phone away. “why,” one replied. “the app,” he… Read more: How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart

ASX-listed company announced in February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast WiseTech has begun informing staff that… Read more: WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits ‘AI’ from emails to Chinese employees, workers say

AI has emboldened CEOs to make all kinds of smug declarations that betray their contempt for lowly human laborers. But Bill Winters, the CEO of the British multinational bank Standard Chartered, said something so viscerally… Read more: A CEO of a Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode

Scientists have finally figured out how mysterious “breather” laser pulses work, solving a puzzle that has frustrated laser physicists for years. These unusual ultrafast lasers produce light pulses that rhythmically grow and shrink instead of… Read more: Physicists finally solve the strange mystery of “breathing” lasers

Physicists at Peking University have uncovered a new way to confine light far beyond conventional limits — without relying on metals and their inherent energy dissipation. By formulating the singular dispersion equation, the team discovered… Read more: Scientists discover strange “narwhal” waves that trap light beyond known limits

Scientists have uncovered alarming new evidence that a common insecticide may leave lasting marks on the developing brain before a child is even born. Researchers studying New York City children found that prenatal exposure to… Read more: Common pesticide linked to hidden brain damage, scientists warn

In a recent essay, Derek Thompson engages with AI as Normal Technology (AINT). He agrees with our thesis about AI’s slow labor market impacts, relying on the fact that GDP growth has so far been… Read more: Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

Eating too much junk food early in life may rewire the brain in ways that last into adulthood, even after switching to a healthier diet. Scientists found that high-fat, high-sugar diets changed feeding behavior and… Read more: Childhood junk food may rewire the brain for life

New AI functionality brings Tricentis Agentic Test Automation capabilities into SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing by Tricentis, helping to enable smarter and more scalable quality assurance. Tricentis, a global leader in agentic quality engineering, today announcedSAP… Read more: Tricentis Releases Agentic AI Testing for SAP Business Transformation

Donald Trump is nothing if not a keen investor. As recent tax filings have shown, the US president has made a number of canny trades over the past few months for tech stocks like Nvidia,… Read more: It Seems a Lot Like Trump Accidentally Invested $1 Million in a Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Thinking It Was an AI Hardware Company

Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI Business live – latest updates BT has said that the cost of smartphones could rise as technology… Read more: BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom

It’s looking like time to sound two death knells. One for the demise of the simple Google search, and another for the entire journalism industry. On Tuesday, Google announced a massive change to its homepage… Read more: Google Is Making Huge Changes That Are Poised to Decimate What’s Left of Journalism

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could test out its headlights, as well as some other things you can read about in the coming weeks. Ars does not… Read more: These clever active beam headlights are finally coming to America

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossilized evidence of sexual reproduction and locomotion in animals at a remote site in Canada’s Northwest Territories that dates back 567 million years to the Ediacaran period, according to a… Read more: The Oldest Evidence of Animal Sex Has Been Found, and It’s Mind-Boggling

I have been playing Magic: The Gathering on and off since I was a child and in that time I’ve read countless articles and websites about the game. Much of it is lost to time… Read more: This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering

Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis A £50m Met police deal with the controversial US tech company Palantir has been blocked by the London mayor,… Read more: London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir

Enterprises have AI ambition and platform debt in equal measure. TriluxTech builds the operational foundation that closes the gap. TriluxTech today launched its “AI is Now” strategy, positioning the firm as the enterprise transformation partner… Read more: TriluxTech Launches to Help Enterprises Build AI-Ready Ops

VINSI.AI today announced the expansion of its platform beyond AI voice infrastructure into a fully connected suite covering every major operational and customer experience touchpoint. The company, which established its reputation as an enterprise AI… Read more: VINSI.AI Expands Platform to Address the Full Scope of Business Ops and CX

Trust3 AI today announced the launch of Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security, establishing a new standard for safeguarding enterprise agentic AI workloads. This innovative solution forms a key capability within Trust3 AI’s enterprise agent control… Read more: Trust3 AI Announced the Launch of MCP Security

New AI-native capabilities help organizations continuously prioritize initiatives, reduce redundancy, and move from idea to execution-ready plans faster. Force Equals today announced Dynamic Portfolio Management, a major expansion of its AI-native Enterprise Planning Operating System that… Read more: Force Equals Launches Dynamic Portfolio Management

The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2… Read more: Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook

Researchers discovered that leucine, a nutrient found in protein-rich foods, can supercharge mitochondria by protecting crucial energy-producing proteins inside cells. The breakthrough uncovers a powerful new link between diet and cellular energy — with possible… Read more: Scientists discover the nutrient that can supercharge cellular energy

MIT scientists have identified cysteine — an amino acid found in foods like meat, dairy, beans, and nuts — as a potent trigger for intestinal repair. In mice, a cysteine-rich diet activated immune cells that… Read more: MIT scientists discover amino acid that helps the gut heal itself

Researchers have built an ultra-sensitive sensor capable of detecting unimaginably small amounts of energy — below one zeptojoule. The breakthrough relies on fragile superconducting materials that react to even the slightest temperature change. This level… Read more: New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter

Reptiles have been growing armor in their skin on and off for hundreds of millions of years, but scientists never fully understood how it evolved. A massive new evolutionary study shows these skin bones appeared… Read more: Scientists solve 320-million-year mystery of reptile bone armor

The French Riviera may look like an unlikely place for a tsunami disaster, but scientists warn the threat is far more real than most people realize. Historical events and new modeling show that destructive waves… Read more: UNESCO warns a tsunami in the Mediterranean is inevitable

At any given time, technology does two things to employment: It replaces traditional jobs, and it creates new lines of work. Machines replace farmers, but enable, say, aeronautical engineers to exist. So, if tech creates… Read more: Technology usually creates jobs for young, skilled workers. Will AI do the same?

Jack Clark describes ‘vertiginous sense of progress’ and ‘profound changes’ to society alongside risks of technology An AI system will work with humans to make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within 12 months and tradespeople will… Read more: AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, says Anthropic co-founder

After nearly a quarter of a century operating as a private company, with its financial accounts a closely guarded secret, SpaceX on Wednesday afternoon released a detailed accounting of its business in a nearly 400-page… Read more: Famously secret about its finances, SpaceX opens its books for the first time

The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging Grok created sexualized images.

Google is redesigning Search with AI agents, conversational queries, custom tools, and booking features, raising new questions about web traffic. The post Google Gives Search Its Biggest AI Overhaul in 25 Years appeared first on… Read more: Google Gives Search Its Biggest AI Overhaul in 25 Years

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former AI director with Tesla, recently joined Anthropic to build a team focused on pretraining research. The post OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic in AI Research Shakeup appeared first… Read more: OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic in AI Research Shakeup

ChatGPT Plus costs $240 per year, but ChatOn is only $55.25 for a full three years when you use code CHAT35. The post Skip the $20/Month: 3 Years of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini for $60… Read more: Skip the $20/Month: 3 Years of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini for $60

NurPhoto/Getty Images We’ve heard a lot about the artificial intelligence (AI) boom and how enormous amounts of money are being poured into companies building ever more powerful technologies. That boom is now taking a new… Read more: When AI giants go public, will ordinary investors know if they are along for the ride?

The investment comes as Elon Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.

An American infected with Ebola is being treated in Berlin, while another exposed to the deadly virus is being sent to Prague after the White House reportedly resisted allowing citizens to return to the US… Read more: Trump admin didn’t want Ebola-exposed Americans, sent them to Berlin, Prague

Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars last week as a dress rehearsal for its arrival at the Solar System’s largest metal… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

At a star-studded event that closed Downtown Los Angeles’ Sixth Street Viaduct last night, Mercedes and AMG unveiled the next generation of performance electric vehicles. The new four-door GT Coupe arrives in the midst of… Read more: Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

No doubt buoyed by all the positive advance reviews on social media, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for Masters of the Universe, and it comes in strong with the 1980s nostalgia, chock-full… Read more: Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the ’80s nostalgia

In ancient Roman times, military generals are thought to have used a tactic known as decimation to punish mutinous groups of mercenary soldiers. Essentially, they’d kill one in every 10 unruly soldiers as a horrifying… Read more: Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them?

The Trump administration yesterday sued Minnesota in an attempt to block the first state law that prohibits prediction markets. While other states imposed restrictions on prediction markets, Minnesota banned them outright in a law signed… Read more: Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin

On Tuesday, biotech startup Colossal announced its newest development on the road to its announced goal: reversing the extinction of species, in this case, avian species. The development itself is essentially an artificial eggshell, one… Read more: Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

Disney currently has no plans to shutter Hulu as a standalone streaming service or app, according to a company representative. In a report from Variety today, the spokesperson said that Disney, which took total ownership… Read more: Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

President Donald Trump’s latest pitch for using taxpayer dollars to secure his White House ballroom featured a militarized building—including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a “drone port” that could potentially house military drones.… Read more: Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the… Read more: Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

It’s not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to… Read more: “Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition” may help you avoid paying for a new PC

For several years, a debate has been raging among economists: is AI really taking our jobs, or are CEOs just using it as an excuse when they conduct layoffs that they would have done anyway?… Read more: New Data Suggests That AI Really Is Already Replacing Human Jobs

Climate change is pushing starving grey whales to San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes led to 40% of 21 deaths Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay on… Read more: San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar

Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift. As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, “Google search is AI search.” This… Read more: Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

New Zealand’s government plans to cut thousands of public service jobs while pushing agencies to adopt AI and tighter budgets. The post New Zealand Plans to Cut 9,000 Public Sector Jobs as AI Push Accelerates… Read more: New Zealand Plans to Cut 9,000 Public Sector Jobs as AI Push Accelerates

The literary world is being torn asunder after a prestigious magazine was accused of publishing an AI-generated short story. Titled “The Serpent in the Grove,” the story was published Saturday by Granta on its website… Read more: Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

Abiy Ahmed | AI job losses | Deer ruminations | Harry Belafonte | Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon In reference to your report about 112 Nobel laureates calling on Iran to release the gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi… Read more: Nobel laureates and human rights abuses | Brief letters

Richard Eltringham and Barbara Riddell point to the decline in general practice as the reason why people are turning to AI for health advice. Plus a letter from Dr Katie Baker Your report (One in… Read more: Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters

Every boardroom pitch deck in 2025 told the same story: AI agents are your new digital workforce. They research leads, reconcile ledgers, orchestrate supply chains, and draft contracts. The demos were immaculate, and the ROI… Read more: AI agents keep breaking in production. Here’s why nobody’s fixed it yet

An amazing video has been making the rounds today. It shows a humanoid robot strides out in front of a crowd, busting moves to Michael Jackson’s 1983 smash hit “Billie Jean.” It starts out impressive… Read more: This Robot Trying to Dance Like Michael Jackson But Wiping Out Pathetically in Front of a Crowd Perfectly Illustrates the Industry’s Deep-Seated Problem

Telus Digital, the global technology and digital services arm responsible for the telecommunication giant’s call centres, has recently deployed an “accent masking” artificial intelligence tool to change the way its offshore agents sound. The technology… Read more: Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device. The… Read more: Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

It’s difficult to know the true state of the Russian economy, both because the country’s financial reporting is sparse and because official figures are unreliable. But things probably aren’t great. This week, Sweden’s minister of… Read more: Russia’s plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off

Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee cop who was jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook, won an $835,000 settlement Wednesday after suing the county and sheriff that he said jailed him… Read more: Man wins $835K after sheriff jailed him for a month over Charlie Kirk post

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls, as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date UK politics live – latest updates The Electoral Commission has called for new legal… Read more: ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

The treasurer of Saline Township, Michigan, publicly resigned last week citing death threats she’d received related to the construction of an Oracle and OpenAI datacenter.  “I’m submitting my resignation effective May 29th. I can’t take… Read more: Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats

The first in an annual series, the report examines real-world outcomes of live AI agents across healthcare, higher education, financial services, and HR & IT Druid AI today released the 2026 AI Adoption Benchmark Report, a data-backed… Read more: Druid AI Data Highlights Gap Between AI Hype and Adoption

Exclusive: Workers sign petitions over applications of AI by governments for defence and intelligence, and vote to unionise Google DeepMind has agreed to enter formal talks with UK tech workers that could lead to trade… Read more: Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over AI use by US and Israel

Beijing banned an Nvidia gaming chip while the company’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was visiting China with Donald Trump last week, the latest salvo in the superpowers’ battle to dominate AI. The chip was added… Read more: China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting

After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the… Read more: After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ago. Found in a Cumbrian cave and nicknamed the “Ossick Lass,” she was likely between… Read more: Britain’s 11,000-year-old “oldest northerner” was a 3-year-old girl, DNA reveals

Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic “flip” hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers mapped the galaxy’s magnetic field in unprecedented detail and discovered that a mysterious reversal in the Sagittarius… Read more: Scientists found a giant magnetic “twist” hidden inside the Milky Way

Researchers have developed a light-driven method for creating tiny, high-energy “housane” molecules that are valuable for drug development and materials science. These compact ring-shaped structures are difficult to produce because of the intense internal strain… Read more: Scientists use light to create tiny molecules that could transform medicine

Scientists in Canada have discovered that ancient underground rocks are naturally producing hydrogen gas — and lots of it. Measurements from mine boreholes in Ontario show the gas can flow continuously for years, offering a… Read more: Scientists discover massive natural hydrogen source beneath Canada

A newly identified enzyme called IDOL could become a major new target in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that removing it from neurons sharply reduced amyloid plaques and improved key brain processes linked… Read more: Scientists found a hidden Alzheimer’s trigger and shut it down

We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break, Jason… Read more: Podcast: Elites Just Don’t Get AI

Women may be especially sensitive to the effects of common dementia risk factors, according to a new UC San Diego study of over 17,000 adults. Researchers say tailoring prevention strategies specifically for women could be… Read more: Scientists discover why Alzheimer’s risk hits women so much harder

The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern at one point.… Read more: The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages

Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs consistently misuse it?… Read more: ‘I don’t worry about a robot takeover’: AI expert Michael Wooldridge on big tech’s real dangers (and occasional blessings)

Collaboration provides AIBotics access to cutting-edge simulation technology designed to power the next wave of AI, robotics and immersive applications AIBotics, Inc. (OTCID: AIBT) (“AIBotics” or the “Company”), a global operator deploying AI-enabled robotics and… Read more: AIBotics Enters Strategic AI Partnership and J.V with ARYA AI Labs

Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated… Read more: Alibaba is designing AI chips around agents, and that changes what the race is actually about

New foundation model for tabular data enables enterprises to generate instant predictions with no training, tuning, or infrastructure management H2O.ai, the leading Enterprise AI Platform for Predictive AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Observability AI, and… Read more: H2O.ai Unveils tabH2O at Dell Technologies World 2026

The justice department’s lawsuit is part of a federal effort to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreach This April, the US Department of Justice joined Elon Musk’s xAI in suing the state of Colorado… Read more: Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don’t hold up | Genevieve Smith

Bringing hyperscale and mission-critical infrastructure experience, Travis will support key industrial clients and position our team to expand our portfolio in the data center sector. Travis Marcus, PMP, has joined CDM Smith as a principal… Read more: Travis Marcus joins CDM Smith as data centers transformational growth leader

BARCELONA, Spain—Volvo unveiled its new all-electric EX60 in January with a slew of distinctions. The EX60 is the first model on the company’s all-EV SPA3 platform, a scalable base upon which Volvo plans to build… Read more: Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60

We would like to hear from people who regret turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal or social lives People are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal and social… Read more: Tell us: have you used an AI chatbot to make a significant decision – and regretted it?

New capabilities unify orchestration, context, process design, and governance so enterprises can coordinate AI agents, automations, systems, and people At Imagine today, Automation Anywhere announced new capabilities for its Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform, designed to help… Read more: Automation Anywhere Unveils 2026 Platform Enhancements

It’s getting harder and harder to guess whether a face is AI. The University of New South Wales recently launched an AI faces test, which challenges users ability to distinguish between real and fake faces.… Read more: Real or AI: can a photographer and internet addict spot fake portraits? – video

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 kilometers of open ocean. One whale… Read more: Humpback whale breaks migration record with 15,000 kilometer ocean journey

Why did T. rex have such tiny arms? Scientists now think it’s because its giant head became the ultimate hunting tool. Across multiple dinosaur groups, stronger skulls and crushing jaws evolved alongside shrinking forelimbs, especially… Read more: T. rex’s tiny arms may have evolved for a surprisingly brutal reason

Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By analyzing tiny traces… Read more: Scientists use DNA from poop to save the world’s rarest marsupial