A new study published in Nature Communications has shown that in the asymptotic limit, extracting the maximum possible work ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to turn plastic waste into acetic acid, the main ingredient of vinegar, using sunlight. The breakthrough offers a promising new approach ...

A Minnesota fraud scandal is a "canary in the coal mine" for how easily swindles can seep into government systems — including election administration — Republican election attorney Justin Riemer told ...

A raft of new state laws will take effect Thursday, Jan. 1. One of the most significant is Senate Bill 38, a measure that supporters say will make it easier to remove squatters from homes and ...

Anthropic found in experiments that AI models may resort to blackmail when facing shutdown and goal conflict. AI models train on positive reinforcement and reward systems, similar to human ...

President Donald Trump says he could bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant his administration wrongly deported to the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador. But he won’t, despite the Supreme ...

A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday said that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been taken with her mother to Honduras with no meaningful due process. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...

In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, o3-mini, communicates its step-by-step “thought” process. On Thursday, OpenAI ...

Other presidents have occasionally claimed a constitutional right to bypass particular laws. But in the opening weeks of his second term, President Trump and his administration have opened the ...