As more of our lives move online, the risk of our personal data being stolen or misused is increasing. Personal data includes email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, and even passwords. And large data breaches are happening more often. In breache...
Studies show that military officials are increasingly deploying systems to interfere with aircraft navigation systems in conflict areas. But such tools can put other aircraft at risk. Airplanes depend on complex navigation systems to guide pilots and...
An ancient fossil found by a girl and her father on a beach in England belongs to a creature that might have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said in a recent study that the fossilized bone, called a surangular, was from a re...
Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun. It is the second biggest black hole known in the Milky Way. Only the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy is bigger. The newly identified...
An American cement maker has developed a technology that it says cuts levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) during production. The International Energy Agency estimates the cement industry produces about eight percent of the world's total CO2 emissions. Cem...
The coffee you had this morning could have its beginnings some 600,000 years ago. Using genes from coffee plants from around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular kind of coffee. Scientists call it Coffea arabica. Co...
A report by a cybersecurity company suggests that nearly half of the world's internet traffic is now produced by computer systems called bots. A bot is a software program that often works by itself on the internet to perform the same kinds of actions...
Dinosaurs existed for 165 million years. The animals' evolutionary success was partly due to their fast growth rate. A new study finds that this pattern of fast growth appeared in the earliest dinosaurs. The researchers examined microscopic details i...
Scientists say coral reefs around the world, from Australia to Kenya, are experiencing bleaching for the fourth time in the last 30 years. They say the colorful undersea structures are turning white as a result of warming ocean waters. The U.S. Natio...
A U.S.-based developer of a brain-computer implant is reportedly preparing to carry out major testing of its device on humans. The company is called Synchron. The Reuters news agency reported that Synchron recently launched on online system that perm...
Piet De Staercke of Belgium, his wife and their two sons worried about how long it would take to get through passport control at Dulles Airport in Virginia. They were just beginning their fourth visit to the United States. It was always a long row, h...
The American space agency NASA has announced new efforts to develop and test vehicles designed to explore the moon. Earlier this month, NASA said it had chosen three private companies to design lunar explorers to be used as part of its Artemis progra...
German software developer Andres Freund was running performance tests last month when he noticed strange behavior in a little-known program. He decided to look into it. What he found frightened those in the software world and drew attention from tech...
In the middle of the 20th century, computer scientists dreamed of building a computer as smart as humans. Now, tech companies are in a race to build it. Called artificial general intelligence, or AGI, the systems would do much more than current AI te...
ChatGPT developer OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it says can reproduce human voices with just a short audio sample. The tool is among several developed by technology companies that aim to clone voices with a high level of exactness. The system...
