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A giant hailstorm just killed an emu at a Missouri zoo
A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of ye…
A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of ye…
Tiny crystals suggest extinct volcanoes could still grow underground, a finding that could resh…
In one famous episode of The Simpsons , Homer finds a counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem …
The fusion energy start-up Commonwealth aims to bring its first power plant online by the early…
This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust…
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no exp…
At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., referred to ibogaine as the most prom…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking to accelerate the review process for three com…
Fossil jaws from colossal octopuses place them at the top of a prehistoric marine food chain f…
Some octopuses that lived over 72 million years ago were as long as whales. These huge predator…
Lawmakers grilled Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on cuts and ch…
CAR T cell therapy wipes out rogue antibodies' source and improves walking speed in people …
Does it ever feel like an elevator is always going in the wrong direction? Mathematics can expl…
In her debut book, science writer Roxanne Khamsi offers a new view of mutations that’s not limi…
NASA needs new space suits to land astronauts on the moon by 2028, but development is behind an…
New research shows astronauts tend to grip objects in microgravity as if they felt as heavy as …
For decades, the mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math behind lasers and …
Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. funding giant slashe…
For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with …
Pacific pocket mice are geographically isolated, but the species may retain the genetic diversi…
A new study suggests a proto–Colorado River filled a large basin before spilling westward to se…
A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, repr…
A Hungarian refugee who came to the U.S. with nothing but a diploma made a breakthrough discove…
After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over…
When their queen dies, naked mole rat females usually wage bloody battles of succession. But pe…
A Polish mathematician's theory on the famous problem of bisecting three solids using one p…
In 2027’s Artemis III mission, the space agency aims to test two challengers, SpaceX or Blue O…
Summer is here—in April? Many East Coast states will see unusually hot days this week from Cur…
Claims that fluoride in drinking water causes cognitive delays in kids are driving U.S. policy.…
Award winning duo James S. A. Corey show humanity’s struggle with staggering alien power in the…
A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental pa…
On Friday these four astronauts and their Orion spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocea…
The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in …
Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat marke…
By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive par…
The intermediate value theorem shows us how to find an even center on an irregular shape from …
The four astronauts onboard NASA’s moon mission just broke the record for the farthest distance…
The fifth day in space for Artemis II saw space suit tests, an Easter egg hunt and final prepa…
Day four of the Artemis II mission to the moon saw the crew start to prepare in earnest for th…
A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft is sending sharper video and more data back t…
Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think o…
A Los Angeles jury found Instagram and YouTube negligent in how they were built, opening a new …