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Drones that fly themselves, and don’t crash, are improving fast. Autonomous drones could revolutionize a wide range of industries. Now, scientists have designed a drone that can weave through dense forests, dodge thin power lines in dim lighting, and even track a jogging human. Rapid improvements

It’s a new way to create same-sex biological offspring—but the approach is not ready for humans. At first glance, the seven mice skittering around their cages look like other mice. But they have an unusual lineage: They were born with DNA from two dads. The mice join an elite group of critters born

There’s a solid consensus among scientists on the question, according to a new survey. News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We are often told that we might discover it any time now. Finding life beyond Earth is “only

The study sheds light on one way these pesky particles may be detrimental to brain health. We’re not Barbie girls, but we live in a plastic world. Microplastics, tiny specks of broken-down plastic, are all around us. They hover in the air, float in our water, and are sprinkled in the food we eat.

These were our favorite articles in science and tech this week. Open-Source DeepSeek-R1 Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning to Match OpenAI o1—at 95% Less Cost Shubham Sharma | VentureBeat “Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of