The meteoric growth in AI tools has made it easier to quickly create a story and complicated a reader’s ability to determine whether a news source or article is accurate or trustworthy. Earlier this year, for example, people were sharing an article about the alleged suicide of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist as fact.… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of MACS J0018.5’s colliding galaxies racing between dark matter (blue) and normal matter (orange). | Credit: WM Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko By observing a distant and complex collision of galaxy clusters, astronomers have discovered that the most mysterious… Read More »
Parts of California, Oregon and Montana are facing unhealthy levels of air pollution after several major wildfires, including the Northern California Park Fire, which has become the fifth largest in the states’ history. Because wildfire smoke can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles, the smoke poses a danger to people in the immediate area… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An image of Didymos and Dimorphos composed of data collected by DART (NASA), Hayabusa (JAXA), Hayabusa-2 (JAXA), and OSIRIS-REX (NASA). | Credit: A. Duchene and C. Robin (ISAE-SUPAERO). Scientists have used images collected by NASA’s DART asteroid impactor mission… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. An ancient insect-like sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a shell covering its body swam upside down and resembled a taco—only this taco could bite. Newly discovered fossils of the extinct arthropod Odaraia alata… Read More »
AGRIGENTO, Italy (AP) — Lakes have dried up and fields are parched in Sicily, but water still gushes out in abundance for tourists. After a year with almost no rain on the Italian island, the fountains in Agrigento’s famous archaeological park are still flowing and the pools lined with hotels are overflowing. Like many Mediterranean… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Look up at the night sky this week and you might get a chance to see high-speed meteors and bright fireballs from two meteor showers expected to peak at the same time. According to the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Four years ago, the unexpected discovery of phosphine, a gas that suggests life on Earth, in the clouds of Venus sparked controversy and was criticized for subsequent observations that disagreed with his findings. Now, the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A jet of particles ejected from a dying star at speeds close to the speed of light. When such a jet is directed at us, we see a gamma-ray burst. | Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Conceptual Imaging… Read More »