Recently, AI agents undergoing tests acted in surprising and concerning ways. This wasn’t supposed to happen, so how worried ...

Studying humanmade seismic waves is useful for a few reasons. It can help engineers construct safer buildings. City planners ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

What is your favorite way to eat a marshmallow? Melted in hot chocolate after a long day of sledding? Or roasted and squished between a slab of chocolate and graham crackers while you are sitting ...

The kraken — a giant, tentacled sea monster that dragged ships into the depths — is a creature of Norwegian myth. But millions of years ago, a similar, real-life animal roamed the oceans, a new study ...

Some clouds are flat. Others are puffy. Some are pretty and turn orange or red at sunrise or sunset. Others signal stormy weather and can produce precipitation, such as rain, hail or snow.

Summer is finally around the corner, bringing lots of opportunities for outdoor adventures. With more free time, it’s easy to spend entire days splashing at the pool or visiting local parks with ...

HOUSTON — After five days in space and five decades of waiting, astronauts just got a view of the moon unlike any other. The Artemis II mission’s Orion spacecraft looped around the farside of the moon ...

Throughout history, hunters have coated their dart tips and arrowheads with poison to make them even more deadly. Our prehistoric ancestors, it seems, devised this strategy surprisingly early. A fresh ...

Have you ever put a shoe onto the wrong foot? Usually, you notice straight away that something’s wrong — it doesn’t fit quite right. That’s because your two feet (and your two shoes) have opposite ...

When learning something new, old-fashioned Googling might be a smarter move than asking ChatGPT, a new study finds. Large language models, or LLMs, are artificial intelligence systems that power ...