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A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

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The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces called “dark energy” affecting the cosmos?

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club will get a lot bigger

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

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A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise, Idaho–based Micron briefly top $1 trillion in market value

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter

Unseasonably hot weather in Europe has already claimed at least 18 lives. And history shows more are likely on the way

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

A statement can be true or false. But as Kurt Gödel demonstrated, there will always be mathematical assumptions that can neither be proven nor disproven

Wemby’s height gives him an advantage in blocking and rebounding, but how does the tallest player in the NBA keep hitting all those threes?

This teensy creature was discovered along a deep-sea mountain

At an event at NASA Headquarters, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost

Scientists are working to solve a mystery of Earth’s molten outer core, which lies more than 2,000 kilometers beneath our feet

How animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate is one of biology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a totally new source for the sixth sense

Probability theory and the Saint Petersburg paradox can help you determine whether the stakes of a game are too great