Extremophile molds are invading art museums and devouring their collections. Stigma and climate change have fueled their ...

Last summer I polled the great art houses of Europe with a seemingly straightforward question: Had they had any recent experiences with mold in their collections? Mold is a perennial scourge in ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

The bones are tangled and entwined, as though the bodies were thrown or rolled on top of each other. Archaeologists have ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

Humans& Record Funding, OpenAI revenue tops $20 billion, ChatGPT adds ads, TikTok’s PineDrama, Xreal Sues Viture, ElevenLabs ...

OpenAI has rapidly scaled its robotics lab over the past year and plans to open up a second lab, insiders say.

Parents can enhance kids' safety during online gaming by using privacy settings, researching games, enabling age checks, keeping personal information private, and utilizing parental controls and ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.