October 8, 2025 5 min read The Hand-Wringing Over Antidepressants During Pregnancy Is Harming Women By casting doubt on antidepressants and other well-studied drugs, our government health agencies are choosing minimal risk to a fetus over the major risk to the person carrying it By Catherine Birndorf The Food and Drug Administration and the Department…
Current silicon chips are extremely dense, but ultra-thin 2D materials could make them even more compact wu kailiang/Alamy Working memory chips just 10 atoms thick could lead to radically larger storage capacity in electronic devices like smartphones. After decades of miniaturisation, current computer chips now have vanishingly small components, often cramming tens of billions of…
When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 years younger, on average, than male candidates, researchers report October 8 in Nature. In a self-fulfilling loop, the bot then ranked…
Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. In the past two years, they have demonstrated that they can analyse data, design experiments and even come up with new hypotheses. The pace of progress has some researchers convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) could compete with science’s greatest minds in the next few decades. In…
A hydraulic jump occurs when fast and slow-moving water meet at a boundary durk gardenier / Alamy For the first time, researchers have pushed electrons to flow so fast they went supersonic, creating a shockwave. The currents of electricity flowing through our devices share a name with river currents, but they are actually rather different….
Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks, structures that can collect water from air, capture CO₂ and more.
Anthony, an older man from California, told ABC7 Los Angeles last October that he had been scammed out of $25,000 by means of a voice generated by artificial intelligence. Anthony, who declined to give his last name, got a call from his son, as he believed, who told him that he’d gotten into a car…
Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi are the winners of the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images The 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry has gone to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of materials full of cavities that can store and release gases such as carbon…
When I sat down to write this story, I remembered the gummy worms in the snack drawer of my kitchen. So I got up and grabbed a handful. I should add that I had just finished lunch, and I don’t really like gummy worms. And yet, I ate them. That’s not an unusual moment in…
October 6, 2025 4 min read See Stunning Feline Photography Revealing the Science of Cats Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline By Liz Tormes & Meghan Bartels edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Cats with pale blue eyes carry a mutation that prevents color…
