Effortless intelligence isn’t speed. Research on cognitive load and metacognition points to two ordinary habits behind minds that make thinking look easy.
Aurora could potentially reach 20 states overnight on Wednesday, Sept. 9, through Thursday, Sept. 10, but chances have fallen after activity was weaker than forecast.
The map covers 75% of the sky, and you can explore all sorts of cool celestial objects once you know where to look.
Cofertility lets women freeze their eggs for free—as long as they give half of them back to the company. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
The zodiacal light — an eerie pyramid of sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust — is about to appear before sunrise. Here’s when and where to look.
Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.

OpenAI says an internal model proved that 3D Navier-Stokes can develop a singularity in finite time, using about 10,000 agents over 88 hours. It described the result on a press call and had not published the proof. Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge,…
Rescue dog Millie Biscuit helps raise awareness through her social media following about why adopting an older black dog can be so rewarding.

Google DeepMind has unveiled an AI tool that its scientists claim could help unravel the mysteries of the human genome and transform our understanding of biology, accelerating scientific research and ultimately paving the way for new treatments for diseases. The platform, called AlphaGenome Atlas, contains a “predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in […]
Wise advice isn’t about having more answers. Psychology research points to two habits that separate advice worth taking from advice that just sounds sure.