The four paths forward for US scientists in 2026
For nearly 100 years, the United States has been the world’s leader in a wide variety of scientific fields. No other country has: invested as much in fundamental scientific research, has made mo...
A new leak hints that the Google Pixel 10a could launch at a lower price than its predecessor. The post The Pixel 10a might be light on upgrades, but easier on your wallet appeared first on Digital Tr...
Samsung XR smart glasses may launch in two versions. A leak cites model numbers SM-O200P and SM-O200J, plus a 12MP autofocus camera, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and transition lenses on one variant. The post...
Instagram has rolled out Your Algorithm, a new feature that lets users control the kind of content they see on Reels by adding or removing topics, giving people more say over what shows up in their fe...
For nearly 100 years, the United States has been the world’s leader in a wide variety of scientific fields. No other country has: invested as much in fundamental scientific research, has made mo...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued a warning to the world’s workers in May 2025: “You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, you’re going to lose it to someone who uses AI.” I bet he’s right. The future ...
In 1999, during the last Burning Man of the last century, I returned to my camp on the edge of the playa after a long night out socializing to find a brand-new tent set up next to my dusty old one. Wh...
Since the end of the Second World War, technology and management have evolved together like twin helices. Each new machine has required a new way of organizing people around it. The mainframe gave us ...
We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when science sto...
A 2016 astronaut photo of the Bahamas shows a series of luminous, rippling sandbanks partly carved out by a coral reef. The image also reveals subtle differences in the ocean's surface caused by a ste...
A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based o...
A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our searc...
Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of...
Researchers have proposed a theoretical timepiece, dubbed the "CRASH Clock," which tells us how quickly satellites would start colliding if they lost the ability to avoid each other, such as during a ...
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect he...
The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets...
China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean...
Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest c...
A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years l...