Technology

People with Alzheimer’s disease have lower levels of lithium in their brains, and giving lithium to mice with symptoms...

Under the shade of a cocoa tree outside the hamlet of Atan, near Ibadan, Nigeria, Bolaji Adeniyi holds court in a tie-dyed T-shirt. “In Nigeria we see farms as father’s work,” he says. Adeniyi’s father taught him to farm...

Latin America’s first green-hydrogen-powered fuel cell truck has hit the road in Chile, marking a milestone for the country’s decarbonization efforts. The semitrailer truck will begin a yearlong testing phase in September 2025, loading up at Walmart Chile’s Quilicura...

Screen time doesn't just affect mental health. It may also take a toll on the physical health of children and teens, according to new research. Published in the Journal of the American Heart Association Wednesday, the research...

On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump posted a threat on his social media platform Truth Social to “federalize” the District of Columbia, citing claims of gang violence. He also shared a photo of a bloodied, shirtless man sitting in...

Dozens of retired coal-fired power plants could find new life providing backup or emergency power for the electricity grid...

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. For OpenAI, they represent a shift away from its...

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity of stealthily scraping websites on Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild.Many people came to Perplexity’s...

We’ve all been there: the urge to defecate is strong, but the ability to do so isn’t. Despite much...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the...