Sci &Tech

Eugene Mymrin | Moment | Getty Images All computing devices require a part called memory, or RAM, for short-term data storage, but this year, there won’t be enough of these essential components to meet worldwide demand. That’s because companies like Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Google need so much RAM for their artificial intelligence chips,…

Scientists have suspected for decades that high-flying mosquitoes could move pathogens far from where the mosquitoes first took an infected blood meal. | Photo Credit: Wolfgang Hasselmann/Unsplash Mosquitoes spread diseases such as malaria and dengue, and these diseases affect billions of people worldwide. Many public health plans assume that pathogens borne by mosquitoes spread over…

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniela Amodei has an energy that’s hard to place — warm, unhurried, immediately present. She swept into a sunlit room on the ground floor of Anthropic‘s headquarters in December, sat down, and immediately apologized for her mug. “Is my, like, gigantic novelty mug going to be distracting if I have it?” she…

Here’s why world’s tallest waterfall in Venezuela disappears before it reaches the ground Waterfalls often draw people in with their sound and movement. Standing near one, you expect to see water fall hard and collect below. Angel Falls in Venezuela does something different. It drops from such a height that the water seems to fade…

DNA inside human cells is not free-floating. Instead, it is tightly wrapped around small protein units forming a long chain, with DNA looping around each unit before moving on to the next. This DNA-protein complex is called chromatin and allows nearly 2 m of genetic material to fit inside a nucleus only a few micrometres…

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attend an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Japan Feb. 3, 2025. Kim Kyung-Hoon | Reuters OpenAI and SoftBank announced plans to invest $1 billion in SB Energy as part of a strategic partnership that will support OpenAI’s artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout. The partnership…

👉 Visit the Official SleepLean Website Crew 11 (Image credit Nasa) Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station will return “no earlier than 5 pm ET on January 14,” after a medical issue led the crew to end their mission ahead of schedule, Nasa said in a statement, adding that the crew member was ‘stable’.In…

A spectacled cobra, one of India’s ‘Big Four’ species. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT/The Hindu As India has progressed, the stereotyped image of the “land of snake charmers” has been left behind. We now have snake rescuers. However, in rural areas, snakebites still account for 58,000 deaths every year, affecting workers in paddy fields as…

Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Three Democratic senators are calling on Apple and Google to suspend the X and Grok apps from their stores,…

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and scandium and yttrium. In most classroom periodic tables, the lanthanides are shown as a separate row placed beneath the main periodic…