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For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle

A definition would help Americans eat healthier food, experts say. It's turned out to be harder than expected

The latest batch of declassified files includes eyewitness sightings from earlier this year of a flying black triangle performing inexplicable aerial maneuvers

They weren't afraid of no ghost

The start-up is the brainchild of a founder of Anduril, the military tech firm, and Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company known for its de-extinction efforts

The once-fringe quantum Many Worlds theory now seems much more likely

The mission, scheduled for the summer of 2027, will include be pivotal in deciding whether SpaceX or Blue Origin supplies the lunar lander for the first crewed trip to the lunar surface in decades

Ancient Egypt’s first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra

A new USB-sized device, tested in mice, could help people with type 2 diabetes better manage glucose levels

The Active Denial System uses millimeter waves to heat people’s skin from as far as a kilometer away

A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh’s creation of his iconic painting

The Merck-Moderna mRNA cancer vaccine helps prevent cancer recurrence and death, the new results show

It is possible to take lessons from exposure therapy and apply them outside the clinic, experts say

The cyclone’s winds hit 185 miles per hour—the strongest windspeed of any storm this year

Could disruptions in the flow of energy through mitochondria cause everything from type 2 diabetes to Alzheimer’s?

Although Phobos and Deimos may look like lumpy space potatoes, they’re actually moons of Mars. No one knows how they formed, but a newly launched spacecraft should soon offer answers

The science of handling uncertainty, anxiety and stress

AI’s solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world

Means’s views on the COVID vaccine, raw milk and fluoride have all been criticized by health care professionals

A half century ago The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins became an instant bestseller and transformed public awareness of evolutionary biology. Today scientists are still debating its core message

How doctors, scientists and “anonymous” programs are working to free people from their phones

Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend

Mapping a sphere onto a flat plane is mathematically impossible. But a better world map than the Mercator projection is

A viral documentary has everyone talking about Elizabeth Holmes’s fraudulent blood testing start-up again—but scientists never stopped

President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Stone, James O’Neill, has yet to have a confirmation hearing in the Senate, leaving the future leadership of the NSF unclear

Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire

Besides building crewed outposts at the lunar south pole, where else should astronauts go on the moon? An authoritative new report has suggestions

The emotions themselves may be more important than the senses we use to perceive them

How close is too close for encounters between sensitive spacecraft orbiting Earth? With a mysterious approach to another satellite, Russia’s military may be trying to find out