On February 5 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful artificial intelligence model. Among the model’s new features is the ability to coordinate teams of autonomous agents — multiple AIs that divide up the work and complete it in …
Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet’s oldest, most heavily cratered regions, highlighting a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion. The European Space Agency (ESA) shared images of …
You probably can’t explain how you ride a bike. Not properly, anyway. You could tell a beginner where to sit, when to push off, roughly how the gears work. But the subtle business of how hard to pedal to stay …
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Primates of all stripes really love their crystals. Archeologists have found the shiny rocks at dig sites dating back as long as 780,000 years …
While there are countless types of ergonomic keyboards, the most common are typically going to be angled keyboards and split keyboards. Angled keyboards, often referred to as “Alice”-style keyboards in the mechanical keyboard world (named after the TGR Alice), split …
NASA’s path to the moon is taking a detour. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, will no longer land on the moon as originally planned, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman announced February 27 in a news conference. Instead, the agency …
Adults whose brains still have strong neuron production seem to have better memory and cognitive function than do those in whom the ability wanes, finds a study published today in Nature. The authors examined brain samples from deceased donors ranging …
More than 12,000 years ago, two closely-related women – a mother and her daughter, perhaps – were buried in an eternal embrace. This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them …
Psst! Can you keep a secret? Yana Iskayeva/Getty Images The average person is keeping nine types of secrets, ranging from having told a lie to covert romantic desires. This can be a major burden, because secrets have the troubling habit …
A growing body of research suggests the brain plays a central role in diabetic ketoacidosis, opening the possibility of treating type 1 diabetes in an entirely new way. More than 10 years ago, scientists made an unexpected discovery about a …