Piling on guardrails is the sign of a system permanently compensating for its own unreliability. There’s a better approach.

If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

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Team USA landed in second place at the 2026 Winter Olympics after both the men's and women's hockey teams took gold in their events. Overall, the United States won 33 medals, 12 of which were gold, ...

While America isn’t leading in the medal count, Team USA is looking golden at this year’s Winter Olympics. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...

Team USA kicked its game up a notch Tuesday, raking in five medals after getting off to a slow start at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. So how good is that? What's typical? We're taking a ...

Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human brain? If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our ...