There’s a new record holder for the most distant supermassive black hole. A newly spotted quasar — a black hole that is gobbling matter so quickly it glows white-hot — sends light from just 662 ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

Some people have hailed SpudCells as the first synthetic life. Adamala is not one of them. SpudCells are “obviously not ...

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

In Spring 2025, we — Lilly Fang, Lester Mackey and our two children — noticed that something odd was happening to our family.

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...

Clinical trial results show an experimental drug lowered tau levels in the brain and slowed some memory loss, but the data ...

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the history of unethical practices in research on human remains and the progress toward ...

The brine-formed meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey roof in 2024 could teach us about how life first arrived on Earth.

A Maya calendar formula bears the name Sak Tahn Waax, the first known Classic Maya mathematician-astronomer directly credited ...