Science news this week Aug. 16, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Why scientists are studying bird poop, the world’s fastest backflip and all about the microbes living in your sink. Plus, ...

Neurotech is on my mind as I look forward to our DeviceTalks West 2025 conference in Santa Clara, California this October. We’ll have a panel featuring three leaders from neurotech developers Synchron ...

The largest Cogito v2 671B MoE model is amongst the strongest open models in the world. It matches/exceeds the performance of the latest DeepSeek v3 and DeepSeek R1 models both, and approaches closed ...

Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days. By Sarah Scoles Sarah Scoles ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the ...

Inverness Graham has acquired Cognito Forms, a Columbia, South Carolina-based provider of low code/no-code workflow automation solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. “As organizations further ...

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The Trump administration is sharpening its attacks on the National Science Foundation, the government agency that is a major funder of basic science, math and engineering, especially at colleges and ...

Cognito Therapeutics CEO Christian Howell was a Medtronic VP when Geoff Martha was taking over for outgoing CEO Omar Ishrak and remembers asking Ishrak what advice he would offer his successor. “I ...