“Imitation” drugs, unexpected benefits, serious pitfalls—here’s what comes next as GLP-1 medications continue to rise in popularity

Did you ever wonder how the mechanical voltage regulator — that big black box wired up to the generator on a car from the ’60s or before — worked? [Jonelsonster] has some answers.…

Projection mapping is widely known as a lighting technique that overlays images onto buildings or objects to create visual effects. In fields such as extended reality (XR) and vision science, however, ...

Pesticides, fertilizers and habitat destruction are the likely culprits.

Glass appears to be a solid, but in theory it sometimes behaves more like an extremely slow liquid. Physicists in Utrecht now show that glass-like structures can also exist in equilibrium, which is something ...

LG's joint venture with GM is rehiring about 700 workers in Tennessee who were laid off when EV demand sank, and the battery maker has a $4.3 billion deal with Tesla for Michigan-made cells.

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage

The Washington Research Foundation is investing $7 million in Nobel laureate David Baker's UW lab to turn AI-designed proteins into real-world tools.

Researchers discover that the prefrontal cortex models the behavior of social partners, allowing groups to self-correct and maintain collective survival during hardship.

New research suggests Mars may have remained habitable much longer than scientists once thought. Ancient sand dunes in Gale Crater appear to have been soaked by underground water billions of years ago, leaving behind minerals that can preserve signs of life.…

The information your eyes takes in is only half the story.

AI is very powerful at doing a wide range of verbal and numerical tasks, but we haven't been able to make robots effective in the real, physical world. To solve this problem, computational neuroscientist Gaurav Suri argues that we need to give AI models their…

L'Oréal and Nvidia have expanded their partnership.

The Perseverance rover has found tiny crystals that seem to be rubies or sapphires inside pebbles on Mars, where they have never been seen before

Emperor cichlids, large fish native to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, don't like being stared at, especially if someone's gaze is directed at their offspring. Those are the findings of a new study published ...

A new real-time video AI model was demonstrated yesterday, capable of generating its first frame in less than a tenth of a second. If you feel like the world's out of control right now and full of AI bullshit, just wait for what's coming.