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A recent experiment revealed that individual dark points on a light wave can move faster than the wave itself

The recent measles outbreak in South Carolina sickened nearly 1,000 people before public health officials got it under control. Vaccination can effectively prevent further spread

A hailstorm of these proportions is “unusual” but not unheard of in Missouri at this time of year, one expert says

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the empire’s fall

Former National Institutes of Health official David Morens is accused of evading record requests related to the COVID pandemic’s origins and gain-of-function research

Our food choices could play an important, short-term role in how our bodies respond to infections, new research suggests

A physicist explores how poetry, pop culture and imagination help us understand spacetime and our place in the universe

“I fully believe our results, that urban birds react differently based on the sex of the person approaching them,” said a co-author of a study that made this finding, “but I can’t explain them right now”

The NASA administrator’s latest remarks in support of reexamining Pluto’s status come 20 years after the orb was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it

In one famous episode of The Simpsons, Homer finds a counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem

The fusion energy start-up Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to bring its first power plant online by the early 2030s, but daunting technical hurdles remain