Normally, a person's pupils naturally widen (or dilate) in low-light environments to allow more light into the eye. However, in a new study, researchers reported that a person's pupils also dilate ...

CISA warned U.S. government agencies to secure their systems against a Windows Task Host privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges. Task Host is a core ...

After a slow roll-out Perplexity's Personal Computer feature is more widely available to let users make a persistent agent that can access files, apps, and tasks across a user's Mac. The release ...

OpenAI advances recursive AI; new startup pursues self-improving systems amid leaked experimental model names.

An AI computing centre capable of predicting weather patterns weeks in advance typically carries a price tag of US$100 million or more. Now, Chinese researchers say a small-scale quantum system can ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Dating back to Ancient Greece, we’ve known Earth’s rotation takes about 24 hours to complete. Since then, we’ve updated our calculations... and it turns out Earth’s spin rate ...

Nature is replete with slender filaments that bend and coil—from climbing grape vines, to folded proteins, to elephant trunks that can pick up a peanut but also take down a tree.

In a significant milestone, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its 3D map of the Universe—the highest resolution of any such map yet achieved—on schedule and with more data ...

Imagine having a robot around your house to do things like laundry or make your bed. Some scientists say they have made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out these tasks on their ...

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming more independent and you can now use Claude to perform tasks on your behalf in a new research preview available for select subscription plans. You can tell Claude ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps. Computer technology helped unravel the mystery of the text ...