An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help

An artificial intelligence has disproved five mathematical conjectures, despite not being equipped with any information about…

What if The Heart of The Milky Way Isn’t Actually a Black Hole Like We Thought?

We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of…

4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices

Google updates a 2-week-old security bulletin to say some vulnerabilities were 0-days. Read more at Ars…

Scientists Fired Tardigrades Out of a Gun to See if They Can Survive Space Impacts

We can now add “being fired out of a gun at high speeds” to the growing…

Like ‘A Part of Their Body’: People Adapt to an Extra Thumb in Fascinating Experiment

An experiment in which 36 people were fitted with a robotic third thumb has demonstrated the…

“Big Surprise!” – Heavy Metal Vapors Unexpectedly Found in Comets Throughout Our Solar System – and Beyond

A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large…

AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from China and Germany have presented a new search algorithm for…