Science

When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 years younger, on average, than...

When I sat down to write this story, I remembered the gummy worms in the snack drawer of my kitchen. So I got up and grabbed a handful. I should add that I had just finished lunch, and I...

Antarctic krill keep revealing new superpowers.Euphausia superba, the Southern Ocean’s ubiquitous krill species, sequester large amounts of carbon via their profuse poop. Now, scientists have identified another way in which the swimming crustaceans may modulate Earth’s climate: by sending...

A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions. Source link

Work on peacemakers in the immune system won the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.The peacemakers are regulatory T cells, a type of immune cell that calms the immune system after it has finished fighting infection or healing...