A new system, called the “leap hour,” will allow the Earth’s rotation and official time to fall out of alignment by a full ...

OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether ...

The CEO of Pioneer Labs, a biotech startup developing Mars-adapted microbes, is on a quest to make alien worlds nice places ...

Honeybees deemphasize potential ‘misinformation’ in their waggle dances ...

The benchmark confirms that some AIs are becoming exceptional tools for research-level math. But open-source models still ...

Researchers explored how AI could spread through everyday gadgets. But cybersecurity experts have seen these tricks before ...

The proposed change to how the National Institutes of Health handles grant applications has been criticized by scientists as ...

In past research, microplastics have been shown to cause inflammation, oxidative stress and decreased mitochondrial activity.

NASA’s PUNCH mission is showing a rarely seen aspect of our nearest star—the churning chaos of the solar corona ...

The good news, experts say, is leaves always change color in some way because of seasonal shifts in sunlight. But extreme ...

An ancient Chinese math puzzle shows how to win at cards, horse races and gerrymandering A stratagem that dates back two ...

Humans are in danger as a result: Since September 2025, climate change has fueled myriad natural disasters, including floods ...