Category: Science

Ice arenas and artificial snow now dominate the winter Olympics. Athletes there — and everywhere — may need to adjust how they train and perform.

NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-12 Pilot Jack Hathaway enters the International Space Station after docking aboard the Dragon spacecraft to join Expedition 74 and begin

There’s a moment, just before the tight mass of cells that is a developing mouse embryo implants itself in the womb, that it all comes

As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on

Earlier this week, the number of visible sunspots on our home star fell to zero for the first time in 1,335 days. This normally indicates

A major shakeup to NASA’s Artemis program will step rocket launches up to an annual basis, and discard a Boeing-designed upper stage.

“Monogenic” diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben’s discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations.

Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust

Birds that feed on nectar or fruit evolved better mechanisms for managing metabolism, blood pressure and high glucose.

Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer. (Image

Across the country, Republicans and Democrats have found bipartisan agreement on regulating artificial intelligence and data centers. But it’s not just big tech aligning the

A preference for pairings between male Neanderthals and female Homo sapiens may answer the question of why there are “Neanderthal deserts” in human chromosomes.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory sent scientists nearly 1 million astronomy alerts in one night, showing off changes in the sky. Eventually, the telescope is