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Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built around

China’s Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from asteroid Kamo’oalewa and return them to Earth

Some IVF clinics are using AI to perform tasks such as sperm and embryo selection, but some fertility experts question whether the technology will lead to more live births

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show

The rocket’s red glare has nothing on these images from Chandra X-ray Observatory

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it may be closely entwined with consciousness

The hominins may have gone on adventures, but they lacked key skills of modern humans

People in the U.S. experience more, and more intense, heat waves than the Founding Fathers would have

New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major clash of the American Revolution

The moon is Earth’s constant companion. But will that always be the case?

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus