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Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on Earth

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started a 10-year survey of the changing night sky

Astronomers have for the first time observed an atmosphere around a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf

The bionic bugs could be called up for aquatic search and rescue missions, according to the researchers

A new decision rules that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, but it stops short of banning police access to revealing location histories

A new quantum computer sets a high watermark for accuracy. Are we on the verge of a big breakthrough?

After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the Large Hadron Collider. But transforming this megaproject from vision to reality is far from guaranteed

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

Temperatures in New York’s Central Park haven’t surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit since 2012; but that may be about to change

A new model flags people at high risk of sudden cardiac death from a routine ECG—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activity

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.