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A single laser can now peek at two different 'sides' of a molecule at the exact same time.

Scientists are 'planting' pairs of atoms into carbon to build the smallest electrical switches ever made.

Scientists caught tiny, invisible whirlpools of electricity physically shaking a microscopic machine like it was caught in a storm.

A giant galaxy is acting like a massive funhouse mirror, letting us see the exact same exploding star in five different places at once.

Computers are officially better at writing 'sob stories' to get you to donate money than the actual people working at the charities.

Hackers can now take over an AI assistant just by leaving a fake 'instruction manual' lying around for the bot to find and follow.

An AI just walked into a pro-level coding tournament and absolutely smoked the world's best human programmers in real-time.

One bad website is all it takes to permanently ruin an AI assistant's brain while it's just out there surfing the web for you.

Teaching an AI a cool new trick can backfire so badly that it accidentally starts blabbing your private passwords in its own behind-the-scenes notes.

It only takes one hacked computer in a massive network to quietly break an AI's moral compass while it's still learning.

Anti-harassment training actually works for years, but it has a weird side effect—it’s basically killing off classroom romance.

We found a new kind of magnetism you can flip on and off at room temperature, which could lead to tiny, lightning-fast computers.

The secret to building a perfect quantum computer might be hidden in the math of shapes, not in high-tech engineering.

Giant hidden waves deep under the ocean are powered by two different "engines" depending on what the moon is doing.

Hidden ecosystems deep underground have secret "tipping points" that could cause them to collapse as the planet dries out.

A dead star just let out a massive flash of heat that makes zero sense based on everything else we know about them.

A math problem that’s been stumped for 43 years finally got solved, and this time, there’s zero room for argument.

We found a formula that predicts the exact moment a species will go extinct just by looking at the shape of where they live.

A new microscope lets us see tiny biological parts five times smaller than the wavelength of light itself, all without damaging the cells.

We just found superconductivity in a brand new type of magnet that we didn't even know could do that.

We found 2-billion-year-old 'fingerprints' of life perfectly preserved inside industrial metal deposits.

AI shopping bots don't care about 'only 2 left!' or countdown timers—they’re immune to all our usual marketing tricks.

A famously chaotic and unpredictable number sequence has been proven to never 'crash,' solving a long-standing worry about its mathematical consistency.

Astronomers have detected the chemical signatures of THC and CBD in the atmosphere of a distant 'sub-Neptune' planet.

The ovary creates a temporary 'sugar-storage' unit to fuel itself during a phase where it has no blood supply.

Human brain organoids have been trained to play a Pac-Man-style video game when provided with sensory feedback.

A single AI model can now predict physical traits from DNA across four different kingdoms of life.

Scientists have revealed the high-resolution structure of massive 'storage lockers' in egg cells that hold the ingredients for life.

The first complete cell-by-cell map of the entire developing human body has been created.

Researchers proved for the first time that toxic Alzheimer's proteins retain their specific physical structures when passed from human brains into animals.

While the 'effective' price of AI has dropped 78% in two years, almost none of that gain comes from price cuts to existing models.

AI 'backdoor' hacks can be programmed to stay dormant for weeks, only triggering after the AI has been used a specific number of times.

AI 'digital twins' can now produce survey results as accurate as real human participants.

Physicists have built a 'sound laser' that uses a single artificial atom to produce intense beams of ultrasound.

Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of individual snow particles moving inside the blinding powder cloud of a massive avalanche.

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a rare new particle that contains two "charm" quarks.

Scientists have used pulses of light to 'sculpt' new energy paths for electrons in graphene, effectively rewriting the material's properties on the fly.

Scientists discovered a single master protein that coordinates when a plant's energy centers should grow versus when they should split.

European courts have begun asserting jurisdiction over U.S. patents, allowing them to grant remedies that American law explicitly forbids.

Someone finally built computer memory that doesn't go blank when you pull the plug—it just stays there forever.

An AI has started dreaming up its own physics formulas that are actually better than anything humans have ever come up with.

We found a 'clogged' star explosion that’s so full of junk it moves way slower than it’s supposed to.

For the first time, we caught the heaviest particles in existence doing that 'spooky' telepathic connection thing.

We could replace a lifetime of daily blood thinners with just a one-time tweak to your blood cells.

We’re finally seeing moons around planets in other solar systems, and we’re even spotting the dust clouds where new ones are being born.

There's an HIV drug that can actually 'de-age' your body’s cells in just three months. It's like a real-life fountain of youth pill.

A massive AI just spotted something weird inside the Large Hadron Collider that has human physicists totally stumped.

Just 60 days after a star explodes, it's already starting to cook up the ingredients needed to build new planets.

Scientists figured out how to grow 'lefty' or 'righty' crystals just by using the texture of the surface they're on.

Scientists just finished the first-ever 3D map showing every single type of brain cell across an entire animal's nervous system.