Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver on what they promise.
November 12, 2025
Northern lights just dazzled night skies as far south as Florida. Here’s who has the best chance to see them tonight
November 12, 2025
Microsoft on Wednesday said it is expanding its quantum facility just outside the Danish capital Copenhagen, by building its second lab in the Nordic
November 12, 2025
IBM announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key milestone toward making useful
November 12, 2025
Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects
November 12, 2025
Mount Nemrut: Where colossal stone gods guard a 2,000-year-old mystery
November 12, 2025
A seismic shift in computing is on the horizon (and it’s not AI)
November 12, 2025
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week hinted at a possible shift in the country's decades-old non-nuclear principles, raising speculation that
November 12, 2025
Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to
November 12, 2025
AI data centre-fuelled power demand growth in the U.S. is likely to drive a "boom cycle" for energy storage in the next five years as more storage is needed to
November 12, 2025
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat,
November 12, 2025
A spat between China and Japan over Japanese Premier Sanae Takaichi's Taiwan comments showed no signs of abating on Wednesday with a series of
November 12, 2025
The southeastern U.S. has plunged into record-low temperatures, affecting 18 million people under a freeze warning across Alabama, Florida, and Georgia
November 11, 2025
Australia's Mineral Resources said on Wednesday it would sell a 30% stake in part of its lithium business to South Korea's POSCO for $765 million to reduce debt, sending its
November 11, 2025
The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago
November 09, 2025
ByHeart recalls all of its baby formula in the US amid infant botulism outbreak investigation
November 11, 2025
Longtime FDA oncology leader named agency’s top drug regulator
November 11, 2025
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November 11, 2025
(Corrects paragraph 14 to delete reference to former USARC commissioners' obvious personal or professional lack of connections to the Arctic, adds more information on Nesheiwat's professional
November 11, 2025
AI incident involving middle school girl leads to multiple investigations, possible law changes
November 11, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration has named a longtime regulator of cancer medications to lead the agency’s drug center
November 11, 2025
Man encourages organ donation after helping save 9-year-old boy's life. "Give a piece of yourself"
November 11, 2025
Record-breaking cold settles in across the southern US, but another big change is coming
November 10, 2025
This year's United Nations climate talks in Brazil are putting a special focus on Indigenous peoples
November 11, 2025
Pressure grows for release of penguins ‘trapped’ at London aquarium
November 11, 2025
Baby formula manufacturer ByHeart recalled all of its products sold nationwide Tuesday
November 11, 2025
At 93 years old, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire is urging Brazil to empower native peoples to preserve the Amazon rainforest
November 11, 2025
Tech advocacy group Public Citizen has demanded OpenAI withdraw Sora 2, citing safety concerns and threats to democracy from the AI video generator
November 11, 2025
Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country
November 11, 2025
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
November 10, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow will conduct nuclear tests if any other nuclear power does so.
November 11, 2025
SoftBank Group's $5.8 billion sale of its Nvidia stake jolted stock markets on Tuesday, stoking fears that the frenzy around artificial intelligence may have peaked,
November 11, 2025
Delta Air Lines marks 25 years of annual "Dream Flight" for Black students
November 11, 2025
Photojournalist receiving kidney donation from co-worker
November 11, 2025
Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure at a data centre in Portugal's port city of Sines over the next few years, marking one of the largest
November 11, 2025
Meta's chief artificial intelligence scientist Yann LeCun is planning to leave the social media company to set up his own startup, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people
November 11, 2025
Down syndrome results in changes to the structure and function of neural circuits in the brain. Delivering a specific protein to neurons could reverse these changes.
November 11, 2025
The Tropical Forest Forever Facility is designed to reward countries for preventing deforestation. Charts show the magnitude of the problem.
November 10, 2025
Blanche set for July confirmation hearings for attorney general as Republicans weigh support
Nvidia's Jensen Huang says society needs 'new social norms' in the age of AI
Shop offers free ice cream to kids who can recite the Pledge of Allegiance
White House talking points claim victories in initial Iran deal but often don't meet reality
UN Secretary-General visits Haiti as gang violence soars
'We're American. We don't take s---.' US says Pochettino instilled strong mentality for World Cup
CNA's 30+ years of care inspires amid nursing shortage