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The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is surrounded by a surprising trove of heavy metals, according to new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope
A rare silver coin minted during the reign of a famous Viking king has been discovered in a massive hoard in Norway that now comprises
NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Jessica Watkins works inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox, safely mixing living cell samples with a
On a frigid February morning in Edinburgh, Scotland, Patrick Hickey had run out of living things to put under his microscope. The plants and fungi
The Nazis were far from completing a working reactor for their atomic bomb program, despite claims by the project’s leader that it was almost ready
Sailor Matt Rutherford has dreamed for several years of becoming the first person to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean solo, nonstop and unassisted. He finally set
An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data. But it’s not going to match a human author’s expertise.
A possible reason for the overdose deaths drop is more use of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses. But while still a key tool, its use
Astronomers have discovered the lightest known pair of neutron stars — two ultradense stellar remnants that circle each other every 2 hours, 22 minutes, veering
The patient: A 29-year-old man in India The symptoms: The man, a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force, went to a civilian neurologist after
One of the best fall meteor showers peaks this week, when pieces of the famous Halley’s Comet streak across Earth’s atmosphere as fast-moving “shooting stars.”
In the late 1800s, Westminster Abbey clergy stumbled upon a mysterious sarcophagus. The lid was decorated with an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon cross, but the base had
Some people with depression sleep far more than average, wake up exhausted, habitually stay up late, and experience mood shifts with the seasons. A new
QUICK FACTS Where is it? Southern Europe and North Africa What’s in the photo? Land and sea surface temperatures during one of Europe’s record-breaking summer
