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Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves.

Amid rising numbers of cyber threats, safeguarding our satellites is no longer optional but a necessity for global security and reliability

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

Some of our favorite stories this year are best told visually

Whatever fantasies we may have had about the nonprofit structure of OpenAI have been eviscerated. While it remains a nonprofit, it’s proven entirely beholden to ruthless capitalism

As humans encroach on polar bear habitats, new tools such as drone-mounted radar can prevent us from disrupting the hidden dens where bears give birth

Amid restrictions on optical satellite images, researchers have developed a radar technique to gauge building damage in Gaza

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI

Companies are training their generative AI models on vast swathes of the Internet—and there’s no real way to stop them

Restoring habitats to how they were centuries ago, not years ago, could mean more successful conservation efforts

Scientists are trying to master the basic computing element known as a qubit to make quantum computers more powerful than electronic machines

An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it