John Timmer

Getting rid of the justification for greenhouse gas regulations won’t be easy.

With most targeted changes not mammoth-specific, the focus is on gene editing.

We already have an example of general intelligence, and it doesn’t look like AI.

That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars’ interior.

The company shows off a mix of error-resistant hardware and error correction.

Regular doses of lithium let a battery survive nearly 12K cycles (and counting).

Stronger evidence for a hypothetical quasiparticle, plus actual processing hardware.

Getting oxygen from regolith takes 24 kWh per kilogram, and we’d need tonnes.

Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky.

Neutrino was over 10,000 times over the limits of our best particle accelerator.