Peter Holley is a senior writer and native Austinite who writes about news and culture across the state of Texas. The first obstacle to deciphering the White Shaman mural is reaching it. The journey ...

OpenAI for Science was announced in a Tuesday X post. Its goal is to accelerate scientific discovery through AI. The post suggests GPT-5 will play a key role in the effort. Artificial intelligence ...

A website announces, “Free celebrity wallpaper!” You browse the images. There’s Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet—but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing ...

The Georgia Lottery Corporation is looking to enhance lottery scratch game sales with the launch of Scientific Games’ SCiQ retail ecosystem. Set to be rolled out across 1,500 locations statewide, the ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. While scientists have gotten much better at predicting where hurricanes will go, there’s still a lot of confusion about ...

California, Oregon and Washington said they would work together to review scientific data, saying the C.D.C. could no longer be trusted. But Florida said it would abolish all vaccine mandates. By ...

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is ...

More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, ...

A network dedicated to early phase trials of treatments for children with brain cancer will be phased out. By Nina Agrawal A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in ...

Several top officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are speaking out after announcing their resignations in recent days, citing what they described as growing political ...

People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn’t, according to a massive study 1 suggesting that the pattern ...

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober regularly attracts over 30 million viewers to his YouTube videos, which feature large-scale science experiments, elaborately engineered pranks and environmental ...