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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won’t end

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What ‘6-7,’ demons and The Big Bang Theory tell us about prime numbers

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The science of how Olympian Lindsey Vonn can ski on injured knees

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What watching the Super Bowl does to your health

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RFK, Jr. just claimed the keto diet can cure schizophrenia. Here’s what the science says

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider’s end marks a new beginning for U.S. particle physics

New GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are coming—and they’re stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

How new AI technology is helping detect and prevent wildfires

Are seahawks real? The science behind Seattle's Super Bowl team

If the universe is expanding, how can galaxies collide?

Snakes on a train? King cobras may be riding the rails in India

A push to redraw the map of mental illness

Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood ‘pretend’ objects

South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children

Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliant career began at the ‘House of Magic’

Where did Luna 9 land on the moon?

Menstrual blood can be used to detect HPV, hinting at broader uses

‘X-ray dot’ discovery fuels JWST ‘black hole star’ debate

These two habits are linked to more than a third of all cancer cases

The AI data center boom could cause a Nintendo Switch 2 memory shortage

NASA’s next space suit for Artemis has out-of-this-world mobility

Women and men are almost equally as likely to be diagnosed as autistic by adulthood, new study finds

Lung cancer hijacks the brain to trick the immune system

Physicists trace particles back to the quantum vacuum

Mesmerizing 'cloud streets' emerge from Florida's frigid air

A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

NASA document reveals new Artemis II moon mission target launch dates for March

‘Extraordinary’ brain network discovery changes our understanding of Parkinson’s disease

Astronomers find a ‘baby cluster’ of galaxies that could break cosmic models

How supercontinent breakups leave geological orphans behind

Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics—even snowmaking won’t save it

‘Daily misery’—why some people can’t burp, and how Botox comes to the rescue

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission engulfed by debate over its controversial heat shield

Elon Musk fuses SpaceX with xAI

NASA delays Artemis II moon mission to March after critical test raises issues

Unsinkable metal discovery could build safer ships and harvest wave energy

States and medical societies are stepping up to fill the CDC’s data void

NASA’s Artemis II launch rehearsal hits a snag

A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted

New chicken-sized dinosaur baffles paleontologists

The sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in years

Jupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was

Astronomers triumph over telescope-threatening energy project in Chile

SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

Celebrate Groundhog Day with 6 bizarre groundhog facts

Decoding DNA’s ‘dark matter’ with AI, keeping a man alive without lungs, and cracking a botanical mystery

U.S. quietly declassifies cold war–era ‘JUMPSEAT’ surveillance satellites

How Claude Code is bringing vibe coding to everyone