A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...

NASA's Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed ...