But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might ...

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top celestial events of 2025. Known as C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), this celestial ...

In 2006 immunologist and 2025 Nobel prize winner Shimon Sakaguchi co-wrote an article in Scientific American that now feels prophetic. In the story, entitled “Peacekeepers of the Immune System,” ...

CoreWeave (CRWV) CEO Michael Intrator told CNBC the company will not raise its $9 billion all-stock offer for bitcoin miner Core Scientific (CORZ), calling the acquisition a “nice to have, not a need ...

When 2024's provisional overdose data came out earlier this year showing a 27% drop in deaths from 2023 rates, Nabarun Dasgupta, a University of North Carolina epidemiologist who studies street drugs, ...

Researchers have discovered that ADHD’s hallmark mind wandering might actually boost creativity. People who deliberately let their thoughts drift scored higher on creative tests in two large studies.

Lila Sciences, a startup founded in 2023, has raised $115 million in new funding from investors, including chipmaker Nvidia’s (NVDA) venture arm, to create “scientific superintelligence.” According to ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

You’ve probably heard this one a few times before: Research suggests that exercise is linked to a longer life. What’s more surprising is that a tiny amount of activity could have a noticeable effect, ...

Boston Scientific shelled out $533 million to buy up the remaining equity it had in Nalu Medical, a private company that produces a miniaturized neurostimulation implant aimed at treating chronic pain ...

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