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Snakes Use Smelly Musk to Keep Ants Out of Their Pants
Forget fangs full of venom — the backsides of serpents pack secretions volatile enough to kill insect invaders.
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Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.
Like many college towns, the area around the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been transformed by a surge of foreign students. Visa clampdowns could threaten that.
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Some Breweries Consider Banning Children
Family-friendly breweries across the country are reconsidering their relationship with children and, in some cases, banning them outright.
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Meta Built a Data Center Next Door. The Neighbors’ Water Taps Went Dry.
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
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Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.
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Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
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How the Deep Sea Cables That Power the World Are Made
The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of the grid as demand for electricity increases.
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Daniel Kleppner, Physicist Who Brought Precision to GPS, Dies at 92
He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted by Albert Einstein.
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Behind Trump’s Tough Talk on Russia and Putin, Doubts and Missing Details
Pentagon officials said details were still being worked out, and experts doubted Mr. Trump’s threat of huge tariffs for Russian trading partners.
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What a Smaller Education Department Is Doing Under Trump
Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and dispersing federal funding.