We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.
From jury duty to tax audits, randomness plays a big role. Scientists used quantum physics to build a system that ensures those number draws can’t be gamed.
The AI tool used machine learning to outperform current weather simulations, offering faster, cheaper, more accurate forecasts.
Private listening out in the open is possible thanks to acoustic metasurfaces that precisely bend and direct sound waves.
These hands-on displays might be used to create more immersive video games, educational tools and museum exhibits.
Adam Becker’s new book, More Everything Forever, investigates the dangers of a billionaire-driven tomorrow, in which trillions of humans live in space, served by AI.
When classifying climate misinformation, general-purpose large language models lag behind models trained on expert-curated climate data.
Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.
Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.
