Have you ever seen a bird sleeping on a thin tree branch and wondered why it does not fall? While humans may lose their grip when their muscles relax during sleep, many birds can remain safely perched ...

Anthropic just rolled out a genuinely useful update. Computer use in Claude Cowork and Claude Code now lets Claude work in the background on your Mac, meaning it clicks, types, and opens apps while ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA. Losing just one copy of TBX5 can cause the genome’s carefully folded 3D ...

WK Kellogg Co announced on Aug. 6 that production of new cereal recipes, without artificial colors and the preservative butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), will begin later this year, with boxes shipping ...

The MLB trade deadline may have passed, but we’re still seeing big moves in the budding sport of AI for science. Today’s news: The legendary coder Jeff Dean is leaving Google. His new team: Discovery ...

Google veterans leaving to launch Discovery Loop, from left: Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, Jeff Dean, and Quoc Le. (Discovery Loop Photo) Speaking in June at the University of Washington Allen ...

Before the Indiana Fever won their fifth straight game, WNBA poster child Caitlin Clark secured her fourth career triple double and Sophie Cunningham shot lights out from three, Indiana Fever head ...

Larry Mitchell never thought much about the dreams he wasn’t having. For years, while he regularly smoked cannabis, his dreams seemed to disappear. Then, last summer, he quit. Soon afterward, his ...

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science. By Christopher Flavelle and Sheryl ...

Awardees will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering for discovery and translation The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an inaugural ...

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The museum was renamed in 2024 to highlight megadonor Ken Griffin. Its founder did not want to put his own name on the institution. On a sunny summer afternoon, the rotunda at the Griffin Museum of ...