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Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg [13,000 lbs]). This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape ...
Space Space Exploration Controversial paper claims satellite 'megaconstellations' like SpaceX's could weaken Earth's magnetic field and cause 'atmospheric stripping.' Should we be worried? A ...
Planet Earth Rivers & Oceans Antarctica's Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal 'burp' that could last a century When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global ...
AI slop's many forms The Guardian published an analysis in July 2025 examining how AI slop is taking over YouTube's fastest-growing channels. The journalists found that nine out of the top 100 fastest ...
Archaeology 'It was very very good': Ötzi the Iceman's body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists just used it to make a sourdough A new study cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeasts ...
Health Science news this week: A breakthrough cure for Huntington's disease and a fast-growing black hole that breaks physics Sept. 27, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as ...
To get to the bottom of the 500-year-old Medici cold case, an international group of researchers tested the bones of two of Cosimo I's sons: Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici and Grand Duke Francesco I de' ...
Dead-end bitcoin mining wastes as much energy as Switzerland's entire hydropower generation capacity
Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste ‪—‬ the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland's entire hydroelectric power system, scientists say. This ...
The diminutive, now-extinct humans known as the "hobbits" were scavengers who dined on dwarf elephants after Komodo dragons took the best cuts, archaeologists have discovered. The finding upends the ...
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