Sci &Tech

In films like The Matrix and Ex Machina, the boundary between biological intelligence and machines dissolves. Human minds are wired into computers, artificial beings develop awareness, and the line between life and technology becomes increasingly blurred. For decades, such ideas belonged firmly to science fiction.Now, a laboratory experiment is forcing scientists to confront a far…

Meet D. Indumathi, a physicist who has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most elusive particles, neutrinos. Recently retired, she built her career in high-energy physics, asking questions that most of us wouldn’t even know how to frame. Physics is often seen as intimidating — abstract, mathematical, distant. But Indumathi approaches it with clarity…

Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing…

The ocean still hides many secrets, and sometimes the smallest or simplest creatures reveal the biggest clues about life. Scientists have long believed that complex animals such as humans evolved through a gradual process that shaped our bodies over hundreds of millions of years. Yet the exact moment when the blueprint for building a human-like…

Girls and women represent half the population of the world yet their participation in scientific research is lagging. In many countries, this disparate contribution starts as early as school. In the U.S., for example, girls are less likely to take advanced calculus, physics, mathematics, and biology at high school level. In many other countries, the…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei looks on after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron during the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 19, 2026. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images A group of former defense and intelligence officials and policy experts sent a letter on Thursday to Congress calling for an investigation…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! International Women’s Day celebrates empowerment, independence and resilience. However, people rarely talk about a difficult reality. Women navigating major life transitions, especially widows and divorced women, have become prime targets for sophisticated financial scams. In fact, scammers often look for people going through emotional or financial change….

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, the event sounded like something out of a science fiction film. The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART, was designed to answer a serious question: could humanity push an asteroid off course if one ever threatened Earth? At the time, scientists…

Students carrying umbrellas stand on the dry riverbed of the Jialing Rivera, a tributary of the Yangtze, in China’s Chongqing Municipality, August 19, 2022. | Photo Credit: AP A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters has confirmed that global warming has entered a phase of significant acceleration. For decades, the earth’s temperature rose at…

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange, March 3, 2026. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Cloud and software stocks were a rare bright spot amid Thursday’s market drop. The WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund (WCLD) gained 2.7%, putting the exchange-traded fund on track for its best day since April 24, when it jumped…