In September 2025, the journal Psychological Bulletin published a large review of the research on short-form video, the endless feeds on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
A typical AI-focused data centre already sits closer to heavy industry than to the old image of a quiet server room.
On August 2nd 2026, the European Union's rulebook for artificial intelligence stops being a set of deadlines on paper and starts having teeth.
The usual picture of life begins with a star. A planet forms around it, settles into an orbit where temperatures are not too hot or too cold, and receives the steady energy that makes chemistry possible.
An adult silverback gorilla builds up to 200 kilograms of body mass on a diet that is roughly 85 percent leaves — powered by hindgut fermentation that produces the same short-chain fatty acids humans absorb from oats and beans.
SpaceX has applied to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for permission to operate a 100,000-satellite “Gen3” system in low Earth orbit, with…
For decades, dogs have leapt from one spot on Scotland's Overtoun Bridge, earning it a grim nickname. A behavioural investigation points not to the supernatural but to a hidden animal's scent and the weather that carries it.
Webb has twice hinted at dimethyl sulfide, a life-linked gas, at the possible ocean world K2-18b. Independent teams re-examining the data doubt the molecule is there at all.
Voyager 1's particle detectors said it had crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, but the magnetic field refused to turn as the models required. Settling the contradiction reshaped the picture of the Sun's edge.
With its power fading about four watts a year, Voyager 1 is being kept alive one switched-off instrument at a time, against a hard limit: let it get too cold and the fuel lines that feed its antenna-pointing thrusters could freeze.
The James Webb Space Telescope has tracked how the atmosphere of a distant gas giant changes from longitude to longitude during transit, revealing pronounced differences between its morning and evening regions.
Water was thought to arrive on planets aboard comets and asteroids. A 2025 Nature study shows sub-Neptunes, the galaxy's most common planets, can make their own by reacting hydrogen atmospheres with molten rock.
On 9 July 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.6, which it calls its most capable system yet, to the public.
Saturn's moon Titan is the only other world with rivers, rain and seas, built from liquid methane running over water-ice bedrock at minus 179 degrees Celsius.
A person can sit at a full dinner table, in a house they share with people they have known for years, and feel a specific kind of absence.
Researchers in central Japan painted plain black cows with white stripes, stood them in a pasture, and photographed the flies that landed on them.
