Taara has officially spun off from Alphabet and is shaking up the Internet industry with its laser-based technology. Its revolutionary approach promises dramatically faster speeds and lower costs than ...

Meet Fara-7B, Microsoft’s newest artificial intelligence. It’s a smart agent that can navigate the web on its own, handle simple online tasks, and even shop for you — all while keeping your data ...

Over the past few days, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured something striking on the Sun’s surface — a giant dark gap, or rather two of them, each stretching nearly 800,000 ...

Built in Naples during the Roman Empire, the Temple of Venus has long resisted the passage of time, and for centuries no one quite knew why. A new study of its materials now reveals the extraordinary ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

The next generation of prosthetics could soon feel far more natural to use. In a breakthrough study, researchers from the University of Utah have modified a prosthetic hand to include a neural network ...

Astronomers have made a mind-bending discovery — the largest reservoir of water ever found in the universe. Containing 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, this celestial ...

A modest cut in meat consumption could have massive effects on public health. According to new research, eating less meat could help prevent diabetes, heart disease, and colorectal cancer — ...

The Namib Desert, stretching along the Atlantic coast of southern Africa, isn’t just a vast, empty wasteland. A few years ago, archaeologists made an astonishing discovery there — a 16th-century ...

We often enjoy this fruit for its vivid color and tangy sweetness—but few realize it might also benefit metabolic health. Its antioxidants, once processed by gut bacteria, appear to turn into active ...

A collapse of the Amoc mega-current wouldn’t just bring back polar-style winters to Europe — Dutch researchers warn there’s an even graver risk. Once treated with skepticism, the idea that Amoc (the ...

Franck Marchis, a French-American astronomer and planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, has a knack for predicting the future. Decades ago, he foresaw the rise of adaptive optics, which ...