It’s unclear whether science as a discipline—and scientists as people—will ever be able to answer some questions definitively ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set, drawing attention to the problem of ...

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions ...

A new study suggests that people with obesity have higher rates of mortality and hospitalization from a variety of infections from viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria ...

Though the consequences of the cold have been widespread and acute—travel disruptions, power outages and scores of deaths—the warm western winter will also take a toll. Its consequences, however, will ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way ...

For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...