Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure ...

Eliana Jordan left office life, became a scuba instructor, and later taught herself to code to build something of her own.

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...