They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

The Sleeping Beauty problem is one of the most controversial puzzles in modern philosophy. In the experiment, a woman is put ...

Microsoft researchers have developed On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a training method that permanently embeds ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we can't verify them. How will we know if they're right? When you purchase ...

In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later. Google today announced Gemini 3.1 Pro “for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.” This .1 ...

Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

PARK FOREST, Ill. (WLS) -- A building has been condemned in the Village of Park Forest, and residents say many more should be too at a big apartment complex where many were living without working ...

A Denver woman says repeated mold concerns at her apartment complex have left her feeling unsafe in her home and worried about her child's health, prompting her to contact the city. Charis Lee, who ...

HOUSTON, Texas — Despite signs warning people to keep out and razor wire making it difficult not to do so, the former Park on Westview apartments have attracted all sorts of problems from arson to ...