In February 2006, I arrived for duty at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I was still a newish reporter, having embarked on journalism as a second career, and I was excited for two reasons: I would be ...

How do you search for invisible hypothetical particles? One way is to see how quickly they could kill white dwarfs — the dense, leftover cores of dead stars. In recent years, astronomers have become ...

As 2025 draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to look back on the year's key milestones and look to the opportunities ahead. Before diving into the detail, I would like to take a ...

Napa County traffic has mostly returned to pre-pandemic levels, but the way people move around the county has shifted significantly — driven largely a surge in remote work — according to a new study ...

A new pre-print paper suggests that our latest interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, may be headed for one final close encounter before it departs our Solar System in 2026. The paper, which focuses on ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they ...

Feeling bold? Slide into these barrel leg print jeans with a crisp white button down and leather jacket to balance wild and polished. Finish with a slim belt and simple hoops (trust). Madewell has ...

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding it any old “low quality” junk you can find. Now, a group of researchers is ...

Studies suggest humans experience shorter attention spans, distorted memories, and shifts in self-esteem due to “brain rot,” or a dependence on low-quality online content. Researchers now say the same ...