On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct… Read more: Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editor’s note posted to its website.  “On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated… Read more: Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article

Joshua Hoehne/Unsplash Scientific publishing relies on peer review as the mechanism that maintains trust in what we publish. When we read a journal article, we assume experts have rigorously scrutinised it before publication. This crucial… Read more: The peer review system is breaking down. Here’s how we can fix it

It was the image that launched a cultural icon. In 1967, in the Northern California woods, a 7-foot-tall, ape-like creature covered in black fur and walking upright was captured on camera, at one point turning… Read more: “It ain’t no unicorn”: These researchers have interviewed 130 Bigfoot hunters

“Use Grok to get real answers about real food.” Until very recently, that was the message on the Trump administration’s just-launched website for its new protein-centric dietary guidelines, RealFood.gov, which was announced in a Super… Read more: US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables

Cash-hungry Silicon Valley firms are scrambling for revenue. Regulate them now before the tech becomes too big to fail Hardly a month passes without an AI grandee cautioning that the technology poses an existential threat… Read more: The Guardian view on AI: safety staff departures raise worries about industry pursuing profit at all costs | Editorial

AI romance | Giving thanks | Hotting up in bed | £2 coins | Pub queues Confirmation that the world has gone mad: I got into my car, a Smart #1, on Saturday, and before… Read more: A dose of smart love on Valentine’s Day | Brief letters

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number comparison tasks. Brain imaging… Read more: Why some kids struggle with math even when they try hard

In a rapidly changing job market, it’s not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employment After all the employee protests over the past few years – the “great resignations”, the “quiet quittings”,… Read more: Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to trace the journey of water across the planet by reading tiny atomic clues hidden inside it. Slightly heavier versions of hydrogen and oxygen, called isotopes, shift in… Read more: Tracking global water circulation using atomic fingerprints

Scientists have uncovered a hidden partnership between pancreatic cancer and the nervous system. Support cells in the pancreas lure nerve fibers, which then release signals that accelerate early cancer growth. This creates a self-sustaining loop… Read more: Scientists find nerves actively fuel pancreatic cancer

Scientists have created the most detailed maps yet of how genes control one another inside the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Using a powerful new AI-based system called SIGNET, the team uncovered cause-and-effect relationships… Read more: AI uncovers the hidden genetic control centers driving Alzheimer’s

In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists at the Wall Street Journal teamed up in a bold test of the company’s AI model, Claude. They unleashed two separate AI agents, one to run a… Read more: AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.

An Arsenal fan and a Manchester United fan might not agree on football teams, but could they find common ground on mobile phones and AI? Aaran, 43, Winchester Occupation Works in executive recruitment Continue reading…

Psychedelics can quiet the brain’s visual input system, pushing it to replace missing details with vivid fragments from memory. Scientists found that slow, rhythmic brain waves help shift perception away from the outside world and… Read more: Psychedelics may work by shutting down reality and unlocking memory

Sleeping on a problem might be more powerful than we ever imagined. Neuroscientists at Northwestern University have shown that dreams can actually be nudged in specific directions — and those dream tweaks may boost creativity.… Read more: Scientists found a way to plant ideas in dreams to boost creativity

Agenic AI apps first interview you and then give you limited matches selected for ‘similarity and reciprocity of personality’ Dating apps exploit you, dating profiles lie to you, and sex is basically something old people… Read more: No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate

Government departments across South Africa are increasingly relying on digital tools to evaluate public programmes and monitor performance. This is part of broader public-sector reforms. Their aims are to improve accountability, respond to audit pressure… Read more: Digital monitoring is growing in South Africa’s public service – regulation needs to catch up

A massive review of 23 randomized trials found that statins do not cause the vast majority of side effects listed on their labels. Memory problems, depression, sleep issues, weight gain, and many other symptoms appeared… Read more: Massive study finds most statin side effects aren’t caused by the drugs

Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years. We went from a horrifying clip of actor Will Smith’s contorted face temporarily merging with a bowl of spaghetti in 2023 to a… Read more: New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Saturday the agency is looking at ways to prevent the fueling problems plaguing the Space Launch System rocket before the Artemis III mission. Artemis III is slated to be the… Read more: NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test

It’s Valentine’s Day, and while there are plenty of classic and current rom-coms out there for those wishing to immerse themselves in warm and fuzzy feelings, we’re opting to celebrate in a different way: honoring… Read more: A Valentine’s Day homage to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software, glaring issues keep cropping up. Executives have promised to turn the platform into an “agentic OS” to… Read more: Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick

Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the “human exposome” — the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. Backed by new partnerships with governments, UNESCO, and international science… Read more: The human exposome could change everything we know about disease

Couples who intentionally slow down and soak in their happy moments together may be building a powerful shield for their relationship. Researchers at the University of Illinois found that partners who regularly savor shared experiences—whether… Read more: Couples who savor happy moments together have stronger, longer-lasting relationships

A new study shows that dogs and cats may be helping an invasive flatworm spread. Researchers analyzing over a decade of reports discovered the worm attached to pet fur. Its sticky mucus and ability to… Read more: Scientists discover pets are helping an invasive flatworm spread

Scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered the molecular “switch” that powers sperm for their final, high-speed dash toward an egg. By tracking how sperm use glucose as fuel, the team discovered how dormant cells… Read more: This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control

In a now-infamous 2017 commercial that aired during that year’s Super Bowl, Kendall Jenner handed a police officer confronting furious protesters a can of Pepsi. The backlash of the ad, which aired as Black Lives… Read more: Ring’s “Orwellian” Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The breakthrough could lead to powerful, low-energy supercomputers while revealing… Read more: Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected

A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT with ads as a “last resort.” But as the company recently announced, users will be pestered… Read more: Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust

Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir Technologies Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from… Read more: US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says

Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans they need to complete real-life tasks. It’s a strange project which, as we noted, has become quickly… Read more: Man Lets AI Rent His Body

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early success, the company is… Read more: Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that kept it reel, fertilized the land, established Martian law, and cooked up an extraterrestrial tempest in a teapot. First, ever wondered how cities… Read more: Astronomers Create Strange ‘Vortex Crystals’ from Space in the Lab

Out beyond the orbit of Neptune lies an expansive ring of ancient relics, dynamical enigmas, and possibly a hidden planet—or two. The Kuiper Belt, a region of frozen debris about 30 to 50 times farther… Read more: Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt

A global study has uncovered a mysterious group of gut bacteria that shows up again and again in healthy people. Known as CAG-170, these microbes were found at lower levels in people with a range… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden gut bacterium linked to good health

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical framing, of course, that pointedly leaves the door open to this sensational and still-unlikely possibility being true. … Read more: Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious

When Elon Musk’s social media platform X, recently rolled into xAI, got bought by Musk’s space company SpaceX, it was becoming part of what’s now being considered a trillion-dollar empire. I mean, who are we… Read more: X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a slow-motion… Read more: Astronomers watch a massive star collapse into a black hole without a supernova

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky planets close in and… Read more: Rocky planet discovered in outer orbit challenges planet formation theory

A new study suggests that generosity may be more than a moral lesson—it could be shaped by how different parts of the brain work together. By gently stimulating two brain regions and syncing their activity,… Read more: Scientists used brain stimulation to make people more generous

A viral AI caricature trend may be exposing sensitive enterprise data, fueling shadow AI risks, social engineering attacks, and LLM account compromise. The post Viral AI Caricatures Highlight Shadow AI Dangers appeared first on TechRepublic.

NAACP alleges artificial intelligence firm is violating Clean Air Act and polluting Black communities in Mississippi Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter

This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking enforcement vehicles will use an AI system looking for potential bike lane violations. Beginning in April, the… Read more: Aided by AI, California beach town broadens hunt for bike lane blockers

The World Health Organization on Friday released a formal statement blasting a US-funded vaccine trial as “unethical,” because it would withhold an established, safe, and potentially lifesaving vaccine against hepatitis B from some newborns in… Read more: WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as “unethical”

Amazon and Flock Safety have ended a partnership that would’ve given law enforcement access to a vast web of Ring cameras. The decision came after Amazon faced substantial backlash for airing a Super Bowl ad… Read more: Ring cancels Flock deal after dystopian Super Bowl ad prompts mass outrage

Verizon this week imposed a new roadblock for people who want to pay off device installment plans early in order to get their phones unlocked. The latest version of Verizon’s device unlocking policy for postpaid… Read more: Verizon makes customers wait 35 days to unlock fully paid-off phones

As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world.

OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role in a slew of disturbing user safety lawsuits. GPT-4o devotees, many of whom have a deep emotional… Read more: As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone

On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45-comment debate about whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects. What made that debate… Read more: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

You might have noticed some reporting a few days ago that Android 17 was rolling out in beta form, but that didn’t happen. For reasons Google still has not explained, the release was canceled. Two… Read more: The first Android 17 beta is now available on Pixel devices

Feb. 9–13 recap: If money talks, Big Tech just screamed, flinging cash, satellites, and ads into orbit while safety staff grabbed parachutes. The post Daily Tech Insider Maps the AI Arms Race From Silicon Valley… Read more: Daily Tech Insider Maps the AI Arms Race From Silicon Valley to the Moon

One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you and perform entire tasks without intervention. Oftentimes, however, the stuff that today’s AI will do on your… Read more: Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to “Organize” Wife’s PC, Accidentally Erases Her Life’s Work

Longtime fans of the cult TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 know that the series’ one constant is change (well, that and bad movies). The show’s cast and crew were in a near-constant state of… Read more: $1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show

There are plenty of unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth. But the research community has largely reached consensus that one of the key steps was the emergence of an RNA molecule that… Read more: Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the… Read more: ‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations

It isn’t exactly big news that big tech is in deep with the US government. Days after Trump’s inauguration last year, execs including OpenAI’s Sam Altman flocked to the Oval Office to announce a $500… Read more: Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE

Ransomware attacks surged 52% in 2025, with supply chain breaches nearly doubling as groups like Qilin drive record monthly incidents worldwide. The post Ransomware Groups Claimed 2,000 Attacks in Just Three Months appeared first on… Read more: Ransomware Groups Claimed 2,000 Attacks in Just Three Months

Psychoanalysis is having a moment. Instagram accounts dedicated to Freudian theory have amassed nearly 1.5 million followers. Television shows like Orna Guralnik’s Couples Therapy have become compulsive viewing. Think pieces in The New York Times,… Read more: Why Sigmund Freud is making a comeback in the age of authoritarianism and AI

MacRumors reports iOS 27 could bring a chatbot-style Siri, Apple Intelligence in more apps, 5G satellite features, and a stability-first release. The post New iOS 27 Rumors Hint at Big Changes for Your iPhone appeared… Read more: New iOS 27 Rumors Hint at Big Changes for Your iPhone

Opinions are divided about the potential impact of artificial intelligence as the response to a recent viral essay shows UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry The message from… Read more: AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears

Number of employees declined by more than 14% to 24,963 last year, with fall greatest among younger workers AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears UK advertising agencies… Read more: UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry

Congratulations, office workers. Most of what you do at your cozy desk jobs will soon be automated with AI, according to the extremely questionable projections of Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. That’s because AI models,… Read more: Microsoft AI CEO: Virtually All White Collar Tasks Will Be Automated Within a Year and a Half

As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search for homes.

Murder Mystery 2, commonly known as MM2, is often categorised as a simple social deduction game in the Roblox ecosystem. At first glance, its structure appears straightforward. One player becomes the murderer, another the sheriff,… Read more: What Murder Mystery 2 reveals about emergent behaviour in online games

An operational AI forecasting model developed by Hertfordshire University researchers aims to improve resource efficiency within healthcare. Public sector organisations often hold large archives of historical data that do not inform forward-looking decisions. A partnership… Read more: AI forecasting model targets healthcare resource efficiency

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Codex Spark powered by Cerebras chips, signaling a shift from Nvidia reliance and intensifying the AI infrastructure race. The post OpenAI Taps Cerebras for GPT-5.3 Codex Spark in Bid to Loosen Nvidia’s… Read more: OpenAI Taps Cerebras for GPT-5.3 Codex Spark in Bid to Loosen Nvidia’s Grip

I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my… Read more: I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn’t make a single cent

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, does not often post on the social media site owned by his rival Elon Musk. But on Monday, Bezos did, sharing on X a black and white image of a… Read more: Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss support and saying RIP to FPDS. JOSEPH:… Read more: Behind the Blog: Unglamorous Work

Autonomous vehicles have a lot of potential. As long as you program them right, they won’t speed, won’t break traffic laws, and won’t get drunk, high, abusive, or violent. And the technology has been getting… Read more: What if riders don’t close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash.

Elon Musk shifts SpaceX’s focus from Mars to building a self-growing city on the moon, citing speed, strategy, and rising competition from China. The post Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest… Read more: Elon Musk Pivots to the Moon, Calls It the Fastest Path to Saving Civilization

I’ve spent the last five years working in Boston’s tech scene, but my journey into AI and machine learning has taken me through Glasgow, Toronto, and roles at companies like Amazon and Best Buy. Along… Read more: Unlocking your retail insights with LLMs

What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of Americans have installed in their homes willingly? That’s the contention of tech critics at the Electronic Frontier… Read more: All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say

Roblox says it has removed account after massacre that left nine people including the shooter dead The 18-year-old suspect in a high school shooting in British Columbia had previously created a mass shooting simulator on… Read more: Canada school deaths suspect created shooting simulator on gaming platform

Additional Executive Hires to Support Safe, Responsible Scaling of Generative AI Healthcare Agents Hippocratic AI, a global leader and pioneer of generative AI healthcare agents, today announced several strategic executive appointments as the company continues… Read more: Hippocratic AI Appoints New Key Execs to Further Accelerate Growth

AI poses new safety risks to humanity. sarayut Thaneera/Moment via Getty Images OpenAI, the maker of the most popular AI chatbot, used to say it aimed to build artificial intelligence that “safely benefits humanity, unconstrained… Read more: OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely’ from its mission – and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders

An AI clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting has caused concern among industry figures A leading Hollywood figure has warned “it’s likely over for us”, after watching a widely disseminated AI-generated clip featuring… Read more: ‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood

Finance leaders are driving ROI using agentic AI for accounts payable automation, turning manual tasks into autonomous workflows. While general AI projects saw return on investment rise to 67 percent last year, autonomous agents delivered… Read more: Agentic AI drives finance ROI in accounts payable automation

As data keeps exploding worldwide, scientists are racing to pack more information into smaller and smaller spaces — and a team at the University of Stuttgart may have just unlocked a powerful new trick. By… Read more: Twisted 2D magnet creates skyrmions for ultra dense data storage

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust,… Read more: Twin beams blast from a hidden star in stunning Hubble Space Telescope image

Pressure is mounting on tech companies to shield users from unlawful government requests that advocates say are making it harder to reliably share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online. Alleging that ICE officers… Read more: Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say

Welcome to Edition 8.29 of the Rocket Report! We have a stuffed report this week with news from across the launch spectrum. Long-term, probably the most significant development this week was a subscale version of… Read more: Rocket Report: Say cheerio to Orbex; China is getting good at booster landings

Author: Dev Pragad, CEO, Newsweek As artificial intelligence platforms increasingly mediate how people encounter news, media leaders are confronting an important change in the relationship between journalism and the public. AI-driven search and conversational interfaces… Read more: Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad warns publishers: adapt as AI becomes news gateway

EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.”

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid scenes of… Read more: Roman mosaic in Britain reveals a 2,000 year old Trojan War secret

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these particles actually do once they enter… Read more: Scientists make microplastics glow to see what they do inside your body

For many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or flashy automation demos. It is the quiet machinery that runs the organisation itself. Human resources, with its mix of routine workflows,… Read more: How e& is using HR to bring AI into enterprise operations

Strategic update emphasizes responsible AI, data validation, risk avoidance and clinically grounded workflows to power intelligent systems of tomorrow Medicomp Systems, a leading provider of evidence-based clinically intelligent data solutions, today announced a new suite… Read more: Medicomp Systems Launches AI Tools for Evidence-Based Care

Policy as code capability transforms compliance in regulated agentic AI workflows Automated policy enforcement establishes guardrails, codifies compliance and boosts transparency across enterprise operations Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced… Read more: Kyndryl Unveils Agentic AI Workflow Governance

Alibaba has entered the race to build AI that powers robots, not just chatbots. The Chinese tech giant this week unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source model designed to help robots perceive their environment and execute physical… Read more: Alibaba enters physical AI race with open-source robot model RynnBrain

SemiCab platform by Algorhythm, previously considered a ‘penny stock’, sparks ‘category 5 paranoia’ across sector Shares in trucking and logistics companies have plunged as the sector became the latest to be targeted by investors fearful… Read more: Shares in trucking and logistics firms plunge after AI freight tool launch

AI deployment in financial services has crossed a critical threshold, with only 2% of institutions globally reporting no AI use whatsoever—a dramatic indicator that the technology has moved decisively from boardroom discussion to operational reality.… Read more: AI deployment in financial services hits an inflexion point as Singapore leads the shift to production

Sixty thousand years ago, humans in southern Africa were already mastering nature’s chemistry. Scientists have discovered chemical traces of poison from the deadly gifbol plant on ancient quartz arrowheads found in South Africa — the… Read more: 60,000 years ago humans were already using poisoned arrows

Proposed transaction brings together two leading enablement platforms to support the evolving needs of modern revenue organizations Seismic and Highspot today announced they have signed a definitive agreement to merge the companies. The transaction will… Read more: Seismic Announces Intent to Merge With Highspot

Confidential AI platform empowers enterprises to unlock and scale AI on their most sensitive data OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company defining the trust layer for enterprise AI, today announced a $24 million Series B funding… Read more: OPAQUE Systems Raises $24M Series B at $300M Valuation

Scientists at HKUST have unveiled a major leap forward in calcium-ion battery technology, potentially opening the door to safer, more sustainable energy storage for everything from renewable power grids to electric vehicles. By designing a… Read more: New calcium-ion battery design delivers high performance without lithium

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as scientists long believed.… Read more: Asteroid Bennu reveals a new pathway to life’s chemistry

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, researchers identified… Read more: Radar evidence suggests a massive lava tube beneath Venus