Category: Science

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don’t

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump

Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways

A clinical trial for spina bifida treatment suggests that a surgical approach relying on stem cells is safe for patients. Its efficacy is still being

Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but

A rare form of vision loss has been linked to certain GLP-1s, but more so to Wegovy than to other weight-loss drugs in this class.

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

The barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.

How do mathematicians decide that something is true? They write a proof. Often they start with proofs that already exist, building on or drawing connections

Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature

Burials from over a millennia ago are revealing how people lived in part of the Roman Empire after it fell.

Mount Etna’s strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way — making it unlike any

An AI agent designed to speed up a company’s coding instead wiped out its customer data in seconds, showing potential weaknesses in AI programming.

From the hush of people coming to a standstill to the reverberations of fans, seismic data can capture the ebbs and flows of human activity.