So it may come as a surprise to many that nowhere in the U.S. had a record cold winter this year. Nowhere even came close. What did set records was heat. The western half of the country spent the ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

The conflict in the Middle East is causing the “largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market,” the ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

Rising sea levels are slowing Earth’s rotation, lengthening how long an average day lasts. And the current rate of increase to a single average day—1.33 additional milliseconds per century—is ...

No bad luck here—just lots of fascinating math that explains why the 13th of a month so often falls on a Friday ...

Neuracle Technologies’ invasive brain-computer interface has been given the greenlight in China for people with partial spinal cord injuries ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...

For a raccoon, breaking into your garbage might be just as satisfying as cracking a crossword puzzle or a Sudoku is for you, according to new research. These meddlesome “trash pandas” have dexterous ...

A dolphin murder mystery is playing out on Patagonia’s shores: multiple mass strandings, with scores of dolphins washing up for no easily discernable reason. In one such event in 2021, for example, 52 ...

GPS spoofing is distorting vessel positions and deepening the risk in one of the world’s most important shipping lanes ...