How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how we view livestock. For the past decade, Veronika has been observed by her owner ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

We are approaching 20 years of Twenty One Pilots and the duo remains huge: Their 2025 album Breach went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it their second chart-topper and fifth to peak at at ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For those hoping that Gen Z would usher ...

Imad was a senior reporter covering Google and internet culture. Hailing from Texas, Imad started his journalism career in 2013 and has amassed bylines with The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...

This is Part 6 of a series on AI in education. See Part 1 here. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1797 poem "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (later immortalized by Walt Disney), a trainee makes a broom fetch ...

Science is entering a massive publishing boom, in large part due to artificial intelligence. New research published in the journal Science has revealed that scientists who use large language models ...

The training and use of artificial-intelligence systems such as ChatGPT might already result in more annual carbon emissions than New York City and more water consumption than all the bottled water ...

A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption. A new study estimates the environmental impact of ...

Different AI models win at images, coding, and research. App integrations often add costly AI subscription layers. Obsessing over model version matters less than workflow. The pace of change in the ...

More than 50% of researchers have used artificial intelligence while peer reviewing manuscripts, according to a survey of some 1,600 academics across 111 countries by the publishing company Frontiers.

Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think. When I called him to talk more about AI and water, Masley emphasized that he’s ...