How tech companies could shrink AI’s climate footprint
Enlarge this image AI is rapidly transforming how we live, work, and communicate. But can we undergo that transformation without destroying the environment? Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty…
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Why the true water footprint of AI is so elusive
Enlarge this image Water is a precious resource. Should we be concerned about the amount that generative AI requires to function? Deven Dadbhawala/Getty Images hide…
How to be more creative — using science
Enlarge this image In the two decades psychologist Zorana Ivcevic has studied creativity, she’s found that even though creative people are unique, anyone can be…
Exoplanet K2-18b: Home to alien life or noisy data?
Enlarge this image This artistic rendering of what an exoplanet like K2-18b, a possible water world, could look like. NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI)…
What playing Minecraft tells researchers about social learning
Enlarge this image A player’s field of view in the popular video game Minecraft. ©2025 Mojang AB; TM Microsoft Corporation hide caption toggle caption ©2025…
Here’s how the Trump administration has changed health policy in its first 100 days
Enlarge this image People hold handmade signs at a Stand up for Science rally protesting the Trump administration’s science policies and federal job cuts on…
What sleep experts say about kids and melatonin
Enlarge this image Researchers say that, like adults, kids are falling behind on their sleep these days. So, a growing number of parents are turning…
Regeneration, super strength, stolen powers: Meet sea creatures inspiring research
Enlarge this image Some sea slugs can steal the abilities of other animals after eating them. Biologist Drew Harvell thinks this “super power” could be…
If another planet is out there, this telescope could help find it
Enlarge this image Rubin Observatory at night in March 2024. Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/A. Pizarro D. hide caption toggle caption Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/A. Pizarro D. Rubin Observatory at…
Our medications are leaking into waterways — and may be changing fish behavior
Enlarge this image An Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Iceland. Fish and other aquatic creatures are increasingly affected by pharmaceutical pollution in the waterways they…