When periodical cicadas surface after years underground, they don’t grope blindly for trees. They head for the shadows, ...

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

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Artemis II is underway, carrying four astronauts around the moon on a 10-day mission to test systems for later lunar flights ...

The "digital twins" helped doctors spot good targets for heart ablation in 10 patients. Months later, all of them are free of ...

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

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

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

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

A Utah fossil shows early relatives of spiders and scorpions already had distinctive front claws 500 million years ago.

A $20 billion plan for a moon base by 2030 and the launch nuclear-propulsion space exploration raises hopes, but caution ...

Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...