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The Heart Drug Pelacarsen Fails, Shocking Novartis and Cardiologists

GINA KOLATA

Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease.

Hideki Shirakawa, Who Helped Turn a Lab Error Into a Nobel, Dies at 90

DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN

The Japanese chemist played a key role in the discovery of electricity-conducting plastics, largely by accident.

Bosses are using AI to spy on employees' productivity—does it work?

Assisted by AI, companies have more options than ever to track employees, minute by minute, keystroke by keystroke. Does this have the desired effect?

Do birds enjoy flying? Scientists asked cockatoos

Flying leads to positive emotions and optimism in Galahs

New Google DeepMind atlas could transform our understanding of genetic diseases

AlphaGenome Atlas predicts the effect of any single change in the fundamental structure of DNA

AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same

A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997

Something unique seems to be happening to the brain in menopause

A new study finds sharp contrasts between brain changes in menopause and those during pregnancy and puberty

Top Mathematician Announces New Institute for A.I. Safety

SIOBHAN ROBERTS

Jacob Tsimerman, a recent recipient of the Fields Medal, believes that higher mathematics can help curb the dangers of runaway artificial intelligence.

There are just five perfect shapes in math—here's why

The five Platonic solids are the epitome of perfection—at least in mathematics. Topology explains why there are only five of them

This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did

In 2022 researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma-ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth

OpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversy

Prior to the announcement, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations

What Is Navier-Stokes, the ‘Millennium’ Math Problem OpenAI Claims to Have Solved?

CADE METZ

OpenAI announced today that it had solved the problem, one of seven “Millennium Problems” seen as among the most important in higher mathematics.

A Newer Kind of Gene Editing Promises to Edit ‘Nurture’ Over ‘Nature’

EMILY BAUMGAERTNER NUNN

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives.

U.S. to Loan $1.9 Billion to Restart a Shuttered Nuclear Plant in Iowa

BRAD PLUMER

No company in the United States has ever restarted a reactor that was seemingly closed for good, but there are now three major efforts underway to do so.

California’s Ambitious Plan for Textile Waste

RACHEL CERNANSKY

A recycling law coming into force now could change fashion.