For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely narrow needle, kept mathematicians ...

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

From Facebook to X to TikTok, today’s social media giants position themselves as bastions of free speech. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says fact-checking caused “too much censorship,” while TikTok ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 is a ...

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blow to the agency's efforts to manage rising ...

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a conservation program that dropped fostered wolf pups into wild dens. Then politics happened.

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A long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersized successor to the Large Hadron Collider ...

A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in space-tracking circles after an unidentified object was launched into orbit ...