A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

December, 2025; Latest GK, Current Affairs Questions Answers: The Weekly Current Affairs Quiz for 15–21 December, 2025 offers a focused review of major national and global events from the past week.

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Friday, December 12, 2025, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Along the way, I’ll ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

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On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, Jeopardy! will feature a major Final question. Contestants were tested on various topics, and the day's final clue involves a well-known business scandal. Elizabeth ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

The iPhone 17 introduces a range of advancements that highlight the evolution of smartphone technology since the release of the iPhone 12. From enhanced performance and display technology to improved ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

We don’t live in a vacuum. We are perpetually bumping up against a mix of life’s circumstances, which can interrupt and influence us, even when we’re unaware of their impact. These contexts of our ...