Stories by Jackie Flynn Mogensen

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out the rules

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs

Watching sporting events like the Super Bowl can influence our brains and bodies—and not always in a good way

This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine

Boys are more likely to be diagnosed as autistic as children—but by adulthood, that trend changes, according to a new study in Sweden

If an incoming asteroid hits the moon, it will be visible from Earth, according to a new study

Acquiring xAI could boost SpaceX’s plans to launch a one-million-strong satellite constellation to act as an orbital data center network

The tiny Foskeia pelendonum was a plant-eating dinosaur with a “weird” anatomy, scientists say

“Textbooks will need to be updated”: the solar system’s largest planet appears to be smaller and flatter than we knew

The National Reconnaissance Office has now declassified a satellite program used to spy on America’s adversaries

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87*

Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to a new study

Novel artificial lungs could help keep people whose lungs no longer function alive long enough to get an organ transplant

These polar bears appear to be maintaining their physical health despite the loss of sea ice—their preferred hunting grounds

The galaxy MoM-z14 could offer clues to what the universe looked like in its early infancy

A study of more than 320,000 people found that night owls are more likely to engage in behaviors that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease such as smoking and sleeping poorly

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of previously undiscovered objects

A crucial test of NASA’s upcoming crewed flight to the moon is set to take place as soon as Saturday, the agency said

Brain changes during menopause could help explain why some people experience neurological symptoms such as anxiety, depression and memory problems

Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain

A leader in the global fight against smallpox and a champion of vaccine science, William Foege died last Saturday

This weekend’s freezing temperatures and snow won’t just affect humans—zoo animals need to get ready for the coming storm, too

The U.S. secretary of health and human services told USA Today that he believed the flu jab was a “potential culprit” for his spasmodic dysphonia that he could not “rule out”

Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now