Nuclear policy specialist David Albright explains how his organization is monitoring for damage to nuclear sites following ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

In the early 20th century, a mathematician and economist sought the optimal strategy for Holmes to escape Moriarty’s pursuit ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

And killer whale youngsters are fond of playing kelp keep-away. But what the southern residents are doing with the kelp ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Power-hungry AI and associated data centers could make the grid cleaner, eventually cutting more climate-change-causing ...

For more than a century, cars have meant freedom, escape and self-reinvention to Americans. Now Tesla’s forthcoming Cybercab ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

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