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One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centers is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and become more efficient.

A massive plume of toxic particles has filled the air in the US Southwest, triggered by hazardous conditions sweeping into the country from south of the border.

Octopuses may be even smarter than we thought. Researchers at Dartmouth found that octopuses can learn to use mirrors to locate food hidden behind them--a skill previously seen only in vertebrates like mammals and birds. After training, the animals . ...

University of North Dakota grad students will test the system that's destined for the moon.

Crannogs may have been built by the country's early inhabitants some 4,000 years ago.

The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.

Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes' gravity. The timing and brightness of these bursts could ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act like a cosmic brake, stripping away angular momentum ...

A protein that helps keep inflammation in check may one day point researchers toward new ways to ease frailty and bone loss associated with aging, though the evidence so far comes from mice.

When it comes to modeling near-future climate change, scientists have taken their absolute worst-case greenhouse gas emissions scenario off the table, deciding it is "implausible".