They showed their knowledge of biology and coding, geology and machines; they solved crimes, built hovercraft, decrypted encoded messages and classified rocks and bugs. Some 1,200 middle school and ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are developing a genetic test to predict which medications ...

How quickly do we perceive whether a person we are interacting with is clever or predictable? Be it in a game, a conversation ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, ...

The game Doom has, over time, turned up everywhere. It’s been retrofitted, by fans, for iPods and digital cameras, ATM machines and calculators; within Excel spreadsheets and even in the display ...

The world's shortest IQ test is just three questions long and can tell if you're smarter than 80 percent of the population. Called the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), it has been around since 2005 ...

When Consumer Reports published findings from tests conducted on several synthetic braiding hair products in 2025, we detected heavy metals like lead in 90 percent and volatile organic compounds (VOCs ...

Researchers work in a mobile Fire-Eye laboratory in Beijing in June 2020. The labs can identify coronavirus infections, as well as decipher and analyze human DNA. (Fu ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to any other ancient or modern population in South America. It is thought ...

FOUR people have been arrested following an investigation of suspected fraudulent activity at an independent testing centre in Winchester. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary’s Economic Crime ...

Tests that once challenged advanced AI models are now being solved with ease, making it harder for researchers to pinpoint what current systems are actually capable of.