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Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale used CRISPR-engineered yeast and 3D printing to turn PET plastic waste into edible cookies, but experts say it's not a commercial solution.
A psychologist explains why happy couples don't fight about who does more, citing research on relationship dynamics.
NASA launches its Roman Space Telescope Sunday from Florida to study dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
Le Monde reports that NASA's new Roman space telescope is setting out to search for dark energy and exoplanets.
A former quarry behind a New Jersey strip mall has become a major fossil site, revealing the hours after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch Aug. 30, aiming to probe dark energy, discover exoplanets, and survey the Milky Way.
A new framework lets a wheeled-legged robot learn to open and pass through doors from a single RGB video, achieving 96.57% success across five real doors and 80.95% zero-shot on unseen similar doors.
Harvard professor David Parkes, awarded the 2026 John McCarthy Award at IJCAI, argued in his lecture that the next step for AI is designing mechanisms to let autonomous agents collaborate, much as markets coordinate human labor.
ACE Robotics and the University of Hong Kong unveiled StreamPI, a method that gives vision-language-action models continuous temporal modeling, boosting real-robot task success by up to 33 points.
Canada announces recruitment of 64 researchers, including 48 from top U.S. universities, with $364 million in funding.
Pew Research finds ChatGPT is shaping human writing, with doubled em dashes and a surge in words like 'delve.'
Researchers in South Africa and France transmitted laser-borne data over hundreds of meters with 98% fidelity using magnetic skyrmions to counter atmospheric distortion, paving the way for cheaper wireless and satellite communications.
Generation Lab is offering an anti-aging injection to influencers, claiming it restores youth, but it refuses to disclose the drugs and evidence is anecdotal.
A new study says climate change is intensifying El Niño events like the 'Godzilla' El Niño now forming, with global impacts on weather and food security.
One thousand Swiss citizens buried cotton underpants for two months in a citizen science project to map soil health, revealing land management's impact on soil quality.
Chemical traces and ancient DNA reveal cacao from Central America reached Etowah, Georgia, 1,000 years ago, proving long-distance trade connections.
MarkTechPost analyzed Anthropic's dataset of 1,440 AI-designed miniprotein binders with wet-lab results, evaluating structure predictors and training classifiers.
AI analysis of routine mammograms can identify heart disease in women, a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology congress suggests.
X Square Robot released WALL-SS, an autoregressive world model that lets robots rehearse actions in a physical-rule-based virtual environment, showing strong agreement with real-world tests.
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a 0.72M-parameter dual-stream foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring that outperforms existing CGM baselines on clinical prediction tasks.
The largest controlled study found wild swimming raises risks of stomach bugs and skin rashes, challenging WHO freshwater guidelines.
Cyborg cockroaches with medical injectors could deliver aid to trapped people, Australian researchers say.
World's first AI-assisted brain tumour surgery in London saves patient's sight.
A Le Monde report suggests that combining organic and more plant-based diets benefits both health and the environment.