A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a promising new medicine. Normally, creating better ...

After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she hoped would be a more stable career in content marketing — only to find AI had ...

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun and other ex-Meta researchers, has raised more than $1 billion from investors. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Late last year, Yann ...

An AI agent reads its own source code, forms a hypothesis for improvement (such as changing a learning rate or an architecture depth), modifies the code, runs the experiment, and evaluates the results ...

Meta has acquired Moltbook, the viral AI agent forum built without a single line of human code, amid fake posts and a security breach.

One of the most deadly and dangerous volcano hazards isn’t lava. Mudflows called lahars can come without clear warning. In June 2024, early career geologist Gustavo Béjar López traveled to Guatemala ...