A new study of the Helix Nebula shows a never-before-seen detail of how dying stars recycle elements. Researchers found it by ...

There’s a million-dollar prize for proving the Riemann hypothesis. Claude couldn’t pull that off, but it made significant progress on a related problem ...

This study has been touted by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont as proof of the benefits of a universal, single-payer health care system, but the research hasn’t been peer-reviewed ...

Incredible new video footage reveals a convoy of hundreds of stingrays—a grouping that marine biologists call a “fever”—off the coast of Southampton, N.Y. In the videos, shot by drone by Joanna ...

A controversial 2024 study that some vaccine skeptics used to argue that millions of people likely died as a result of COVID vaccines has been retracted over misinformation and issues with the ...

Sky-gazers have been captivated by the 2026 total solar eclipse, the first of its kind to pass over mainland Europe in some three decades. On August 12, for a few brief moments, about one billion ...

Alzheimer’s disease disproportionately affects women—around two-thirds of the people who develop it are female. Why that is the case isn't totally clear. It may be because women tend to live longer ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us, marking the first total solar eclipse visible from parts of mainland Europe in almost three decades. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion ...

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises ...

Imagine a lion with the nose of a dying star, a mane of space dust and a habitat 10,000 light-years away from Earth. On its infrared galactic safari, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just ...

Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997 ...

Mathematician Yang-Hui He explains why artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming mathematical work—and that's a ...