Latest scientific discoveries and research news
As social media language evolves, Adam Aleksic’s 'Algospeak' offers a vital guide to understanding algorithm-driven slang, censorship workarounds, and modern online expression.
Kat Zhou's close-up of a mimic octopus wins BigPicture 2025's Aquatic Life prize, celebrated for its emotional depth and technical mastery in underwater photography.
NASA’s Juno mission has detected a completely new type of plasma wave near Jupiter’s poles, revealing unexpected dynamics in the gas giant’s intense magnetic environment and offering clues about space weather beyond Earth.
Urban trees on city streets survive droughts better than park trees due to access to water from leaking underground pipes, revealing an unexpected role of aging infrastructure in urban ecology.
Scientists warn that failure to scale up carbon capture technologies could lead to an additional 0.5°C of global warming, undermining efforts to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
A reduction in shipping emissions has led to increased warming at the Great Barrier Reef, sparking urgent calls for artificial cooling methods like marine cloud brightening to prevent mass coral bleaching.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has helped identify the particle composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, resolving a long-standing debate. The findings mark a major step in understanding these enigmatic space particles.
As governments worldwide adopt AI to streamline services, concerns grow over transparency, accountability, and citizen trust—highlighting risks to democratic integrity when flawed algorithms make life-altering decisions.
An experiment letting an AI agent manage daily tasks exposes both the transformative potential and serious limitations of current AI assistants in personal productivity.