SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

New York City officials have released thousands of previously unseen documents questioning the air quality at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks.The city launched its public online portal on Tuesday with more than 170,000 pages of...

Jaden Caradine knew he wanted to be an engineer at eight years old. He just took a winding road to get there. Before he enrolled at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, before he discovered the field that would become his focus, and...

Safety concerns about AI are growing, and now, a common method for catching misbehaving systems could have flaws, new research suggests.In experiments with AI agents, researchers found that chain-of-thought monitoring, in which one AI checks another’s work, became far...

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If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s or ’90s, chances are you remember The Oregon Trail. For many like me, it was our first computer game and our first introduction to...

Support for disability benefits remains "remarkably strong" and cutting them would be "politically risky" according to a new report. The analysis, from the British Social Attitudes survey, found that fewer than one in 10 people favoured cutting welfare...

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Saturday, 5 September, shows a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau. The small volcanic island, in the Indonesian archipelago situated between Sumatra and Java, began spewing ash and lava...

A five-day programme activities has begun at Wolverhampton's railway station to support people's mental health and wellbeing.Wellbeing Week has been timed to coincide with Thursday's World Suicide Prevention Day and is a collaboration between West Midlands Railway and Rethink...

How will global access to food, water, and energy evolve in coming decades? A new study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests the answers could be very different depending on region, resource, and income.Based on extensive modeling of many different...

And there were points during the 2010s when the number of claims were higher per A&E attendance than they were now before falling.But the sustained increase over the past five years is causing concern, say experts. The pattern is...