The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.

Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.

Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment

New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.

The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow

Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.

New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics

19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report

DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.

OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

How snails engineer their slime

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.

AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

Trump is losing his war on wind power

A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown

The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision.

Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport

Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.

X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge

Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."

Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident

"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."

Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too

This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says.

Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review

Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up.

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350

Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.