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The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem

KENNETH CHANG

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That?

WILLIAM J. BROAD AND CADE METZ

The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise.

The Iran War Is Pushing Global Coal Use to Record Highs

BRAD PLUMER

Five years after virtually every world leader agreed to “phase down” the burning of coal for climate reasons, the fuel is more widely used than ever.

How the New iPhone Duo’s Glass Screen Bends Without Breaking

WILLIAM J. BROAD

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

Racing to Contain Invasive Green Crabs in Puget Sound

REBECCA DZOMBAK AND CHONA KASINGER

Tribes and scientists are mounting an urgent trapping effort to keep European green crabs from devastating a corner of Puget Sound.

Why the Swift telescope was so special

NASA's formidable gamma-ray burst hunter is doomed to soon reenter Earth's atmosphere, leaving a glaring gap in our view of the high-energy sky

25 years after 9/11, survivors are still getting sick—here are the numbers

A quarter of a century after the Twin Towers fell, those who lived through the attacks are still seeking care for myriad illnesses, including cancers, post-traumatic stress disorder, and more

Are AI chatbots making us less human?

What do we lose when machines become our closest confidants?

The Atlantic hurricane season just quietly broke a new weather record

The Atlantic Ocean has never seen a year without a hurricane since reliable records began

‘Odd couple’ black holes can find each other in space

Two studies find signs of strange black hole binary systems

Giant armored crustaceans survive thanks to a gene stolen from bacteria

Scientists have long wondered how these bizarre creatures endured for years without food—now they've found out why

Unique, mathematical 60-sided "Go First Dice" go on display

Researchers devised the dice to solve a tricky math problem: When playing a game, who goes first?

AI researcher Jacob Coxon quit, fearing extinction. Security experts see a familiar fight

An Anthropic researcher quit over fears of runaway AI. His colleague who still works there agreed. Security experts argue that the incidents that are already on record call for tighter oversight, not panic

How Did a Heart Drug With So Much Promise Fall So Flat?

GINA KOLATA

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.

Mercury Is Shrinking, and Faster Than We Thought

K. R. CALLAWAY

New estimates using the planet’s surface wrinkles show that our smallest planet is growing even smaller, at a faster clip than expected.