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MIT researchers look to create a more 'humble' AI
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (720+ words) MIT-led researchers propose BODHI, an AI framework that makes medical systems ask questions and admit uncertainty. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The problem with asking an AI for a diagnosis is not that it might be wrong. It is that it might be…...
JWST just helped solve Saturn's mysterious spin problem
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (551+ words) For years, Saturn made no sense. Measure its rotation rate using radio signals from its aurora and you get one number. Use the planet's gravity field and you get another. Worse still, the radio-derived rate appeared to be slowly changing…...
Astrophysicists are close to proving the existence of primordial black holes
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (757+ words) A strange LIGO signal hints at primordial black holes and a possible link to dark matter. (CREDIT: SXS project) On November 12, 2025, a ripple passed through the fabric of spacetime and triggered alarms at three gravitational-wave observatories across two continents. The…...
Scientists unlock scalable entanglement for next-generation quantum computing
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (244+ words) Light moving through a tiny silicon structure does not look dramatic. It slips down narrow waveguides etched onto a chip, guided by geometry too small to see with the naked eye. Yet in those channels, researchers at the University of…...
Vivid dreams can help sleep feel deeper and more restorative
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1064+ words) New research shows immersive dreams may help sleep feel deeper, even as brain activity becomes more wake-like overnight. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Sleep rarely feels like a simple number. The hours you spend in bed matter, but the feeling of waking refreshed…...
America's nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it's bringing helicopters
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (698+ words) Artist's impression of Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the nuclear-powered spaceship NASA says it is sending to Mars. (CREDIT: NASA) For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never quite leaving the laboratory....
The physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black hole
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (1130+ words) From spaghettification to time dilation, here's what science knows, and still doesn't, about matter falling into a black hole. (CREDIT: AI-generated image / The Brighter Side of News) In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of…...
AI struggles with true creativity compared to humans, study finds
3+ day, 1+ min ago (703+ words) A new study finds AI struggles with true creativity, especially in visual imagination tasks compared to humans. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A page filled with abstract shapes can spark wildly different ideas depending on who is looking at it. For one person,…...
Lightning bolts on Jupiter are up to 100 times stronger than Earth's
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (772+ words) On Jupiter, a storm doesn't just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet's atmosphere is a perpetual engine of turbulence, and somewhere inside those churning cloud bands, lightning is cracking with a force that dwarfs anything the Earth has…...
Why don't giant prehistoric insects still exist?
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (715+ words) The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide. (CREDIT: Werner Kraus / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) New research published in Nature dismantles that explanation entirely. That second question, what actually does limit insect size, now has no clean answer....