Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered the most unmistakable evidence yet that the powerful jets launched by ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed an entirely new type of exoplanet whose atmospheric ...

A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

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There were huge disruptions to the global scientific enterprise this year — but immense bright spots for health, discovery, ...

Officials in Sri Lanka are facing immense pressure for their alleged mishandling of Cyclone Ditwah, with the crisis ...

When the United States faced the looming threat of World War II in the 1930s, it bet big on science — and won. The nation invested billions of dollars in research at universities and in industry. That ...

Here's how the therapy containing estrogen and progesterone initially got a bad rap—and what the research says about its potential benefits. Though a 2002 study led many to believe that hormone ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health doled out about as much total grant ...

This is the story of Harold “Papa Flash” Edgerton, the man who froze time and uncovered a universe of hidden motion. His inventions captured bullets slicing through apples, milk exploding into ...

We like to think we are objective observers of reality—that we see things exactly as they are. But the truth is, we mostly see what we expect to see. The brain is not a passive recorder of experience, ...