After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. It's Pi Day at the pizzeria, and orders are flying. In the chaos, you randomly toss a ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

So it may come as a surprise to many that nowhere in the U.S. had a record cold winter this year. Nowhere even came close. What did set records was heat. The western half of the country spent the ...

Neuracle Technologies’ invasive brain-computer interface has been given the greenlight in China for people with partial spinal cord injuries ...

The conflict in the Middle East is causing the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the International Energy Agency says ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a food reward for the work. The scientists describe the behavior as foraging for ...

No bad luck here—just lots of fascinating math that explains why the 13th of a month so often falls on a Friday ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...