How moss helped convict grave robbers of a Chicago cemetery
Back in 2009, residents were scandalized when employees at Burr Oak Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Alsip were accused of exhuming old graves in order to resell the burial…
Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?
After losing its original eyes, one of our distant ancestors may have done what evolution does best: tinkered with what was available, reshaping a single central visual organ into two…
During WWI, a daredevil pilot helped invent the first ādronesā
On November 21, 1916, pilot and inventor Lawrence Sperry was flying over Long Islandās Great South Bay with his student Dorothy Rice Pierce when his plane suddenly plunged into the…
A 3D-printed wheelchair is helping this turtle walk again
A Gulf Coast box turtle named Moses, missing both of its back legs, is getting a second chance at mobility thanks to a caring human and a 3D printer. Using…
Japan eyes distant island for nuclear waste dump
Nuclear power is on the rise around the world, but with it comes an extremely pressing question: where will all of the radioactive waste be stored? For Japan, one answer…
Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced that a large collection of tech companies had signed on to what it’s calling the Ratepayer Protection Pledge. By agreeing, the initial signatoriesāAmazon, Google,…
TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
On Wednesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that it had issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade. The approval will allow work to begin on a site…
Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space
DENVERāLast month, President Donald Trump took to social media with an announcement that he would direct the Pentagon and other federal agencies to “begin the process” of disclosing government files…
Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from…
Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
Archaeologists are keen to learn more about the specific diets and culinary practices of ancient populations around the globe. An interdisciplinary team of scientists analyzed the residues on prehistoric ceramic…