The quest to figure out farming on Mars Once upon a time, water flowed across the surface of Mars. Waves lapped against shorelines, strong winds gusted ...

US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ...

—An anonymous US agency worker says they’re not impressed by a chatbot DOGE created in an attempt to automate work previously done by federal employees, ...

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1 The Trump administration is slashing billions in biomedical research funding The change, effective immediately, is sending shockwaves through academia. ...

1 Trump advisers were blindsided by Elon Musk’s team’s offer to federal workersOfficials weren’t consulted about plans to induce civil service workers to ...

As of 2023, nearly 2 billion metric tons of steel were being produced annually, enough to cover Manhattan in a layer more than 13 feet thick. Making this ...

Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that ...

—Melissa Heikkilä Like many others, I recently joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving, I was delighted to see a private message from a fellow AI reporter, Will ...

President Biden’s administration will end within two months, and likely to depart with him is Arati Prabhakar, the top mind for science and technology in ...