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Shock waves from tiny black holes in the early universe could explain how antimatter became so rare while matter is common.

The record-setting astronauts had a front-row view of the farside of the moon, an eclipse and perhaps a re-creation of the ...

The concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim ...

After looping around the moon, the Artemis II crew — and their capsule’s heat shield — passed the mission’s final major test: ...

Gases jetting out of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák may have caused it to reverse its spin in 2017, possibly leading to ...

A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.

The Artemis II moon flyby may be over, but the hunt for scientific treasures in the trove of data collected is just starting.

Conservationists now list the penguins and seals as “Endangered.” Climate change in Antarctica has led to plunging ...

Conservative pronatalists want a return to the traditional nuclear family. But that family structure is at odds with how ...

By recording brain activity directly, scientists showed that imagining an object can revive parts of the neural pattern used ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...