A fresh study suggests that some of humanity’s earliest “geometric thinking” wasn’t scratched onto cave walls, but etched into ostrich eggshells used by Ice Age people in southern Africa. By measuring ...

New 3D scans of tropical rainforests give scientists better data on forest biomass, boosting carbon tracking and satellite ...

With the blessing of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council the pollock trawl fleet is busily testing innovative gear and exploring ways of improving data in an effort to better ...

AI safety tests found to rely on 'obvious' trigger words; with easy rephrasing, models labeled 'reasonably safe' suddenly fail, with attacks succeeding up to 98% of the time. New corporate research ...

How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...

True or False: -40ᵒ Celsius is equal to -40ᵒ Fahrenheit. Answer: True! Question: What value represents the sum of the first five prime numbers? Answer: 28. (2+3+5+7+11=28) Question: What mathematical ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

AverageAngle is a class to calculate the average of angles. This is especially useful when angles are around 0 degrees, e.g. from a compass sensor or the resultant of a track. Example, the average ...

Oregon jury orders PacifiCorp to pay $305M to wildfire victims in latest class-action suit PacifiCorp has now been ordered by juries to pay over $1 billion in damages to members of the class following ...