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In a study, memes created by OpenAI's GPT-4o model were, on average, rated funnier, more creative and more shareable than those created by h...

Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors.

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

It's a story that involves scales, sloughs — and spectacles.

The last-ever Dell XPS 13 is on a mission to be the best Windows laptop of the last generation, thanks to great performance and a multi-day...

A more nuanced understanding of hormone therapy now suggests that its benefits for heart health depend on how soon after menopause onset it...

A dramatic video shows Isar Aerospace's first orbital launch attempt, which ended with a fiery crash into the frigid sea about 30 seconds af...

We've rounded up the best binoculars for bird-watching currently on the market, complete with our expert reviews on the pairs to buy.

The Redmi Watch 5 is perfect for those looking to track workouts with ease.

A new device enables remote entanglement, allowing distant quantum processors to communicate with one another with reduced error rates.

Around 4,000 years ago, women in Nubia were using tumplines, a form of head strap, to carry around goods and young children.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star form...

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets.

Five researchers have been jointly awarded one of this year's Breakthrough Prizes in Life Sciences for their contributions to the developmen...

A spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 exhibits powerful winds of material blowing from the supermassive black hole located at its core in a new...

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new prepr...

A smart, stylish and affordable sonic toothbrush with impressive battery life and advanced features.

If humans had a similar body ratio to the northern giant mouse lemur, their testicles would be the size of grapefruits.

A new full-body reconstruction depicts a warrior wearing armor and holding weapons, all of which were found in a 4,000-year-old burial in Si...

Female kangaroos have one tail, two feet and three vaginas when they're giving birth.

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your informat...

April 5, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the...

What are the blue blobs washing up on California beaches? What to know about these strange sea creatures.

Huge outpourings of magma accompanied the split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago.

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and females process pain...