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Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.

Scientists managed to confirm pregnancies in three giant mantas with underwater ultrasound scans, offering clues to the animals' elusive reproductive habits.

CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientists study primate intelligence in the wild.

The computer models meteorologists use aren't 100 percent accurate. But natural weather forecasters seem to have a sixth sense for sudden squalls.

More light at the day's end comes at a price: much later winter sunrises across much of the U.S. Scientists have documented consequences for public health and the economy.

An annual convention in the California desert offered a safe space for believers to discuss extraterrestrial encounters, crop circles and other paranormal phenomena.

A self-taught ornithologist, he won a MacArthur fellowship for his precise, resplendent illustrations that appeared in definitive field guides to tropical songbirds.

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

It was the 13th test overall of Starship. The success is a boon to NASA's moon plans and SpaceX's hopes to deploy a million data centers in orbit.

A Cambridge professor has transcribed a handwritten story that the famous mathematician wrote in the year before his death, presenting a different side of him.