Taking Tylenol While Pregnant Is Safer Than Untreated Fevers, Doctors Say September 28, 2025 3 min read Why It’s Dangerous to Avoid Tylenol While Pregnant Untreated fevers during pregnancy can cause more harm than taking acetaminophen will By Rachel Fieldhouse & Nature magazine Untreated fevers during pregnancy are dangerous. Researchers are concerned about what will […]

Physicists find a loophole in Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle without breaking it Physicists have measured both the momentum and position of a particle without breaking Heisenberg’s iconic uncertainty principle. In quantum mechanics, particles don’t have fixed properties the way everyday objects do. Instead, they exist in a haze of possibilities until they’re measured. And when certain […]

Science history: Alexander Fleming wakes up to funny mold in his petri dish, and accidentally discovers the first antibiotic — Sept. 28, 1928 QUICK FACTS Milestone: Discovery of penicillin Date: Sept. 28, 1928 Where: St Mary’s Hospital, London Who: Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his […]

30,000-year-old ‘toolkit’ found in Czech Republic reveals ‘very rare’ look at Stone Age hunter-gatherer Around 30,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer left behind what may be a “personal toolkit” in what is now the Czech Republic, a new study finds. Researchers uncovered the extraordinary cluster of artifacts in 2021 during an excavation at the Paleolithic site […]

James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Quick facts What it is: Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud Where it is: 25,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius When it was shared: Sept. 24, […]

People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI September 28, 2025 4 min read People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it By Rachel […]

Researchers uncover hidden ingredients behind AI creativity We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are […]

Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow OpenAI’s latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up — known in the world of artificial intelligence as “hallucination”. It also reveals why the problem may be unfixable, at least as far as consumers are concerned. The […]

Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization — Sept. 27, 1822 QUICK FACTS Milestone: Rosetta stone deciphered Date: Sept. 27, 1822 Where: Paris Who: French philologist Jean-François Champollion On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a […]

Lab-Grown Organoids Could Transform Female Reproductive Medicine In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, Margherita Turco, had created what she thought might be the first cluster of cells capable of […]