Here is a fact that should not be controversial: human beings are born, with rare exceptions, into two anatomically distinct biological categories. Chromosomes,…
Rocket Lab will launch a Japanese Earth-observing radar satellite to orbit early Monday morning (Aug. 31), and you can watch the action live.…
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President Trump interrupted a NASA press conference today (Aug. 30) to congratulate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team on a successful launch.…
Adults aged 40 and older performed about 12% faster on a test of executive function after using a HEPA air purifier at home for one month. The findings suggest …
CAPE CANAVAREL, Fla. — It was a bright and sunny morning here in Florida when the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off planet Earth against a magical bl…
Physicists have mathematically captured a bizarre “spacetime crystal” that can either dissolve or collapse into a microscopic black hole after only a tiny chang…
On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. Here's why the discovery of 1992 QB-1 mattered.…
Ancient footprints in Kenya reveal that eight Paranthropus boisei may have traveled together 1.4 million years ago, with some individuals reaching surprisingly …
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30, ushering in a new era for astronomy and our understan…
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 7…
First built to spy on Earth, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon turn its mirrors to the cosmos for a wide-eyed view like none before. The reconn…
Omega-3 and low-dose aspirin matched the effectiveness of antibiotics in a year-long study of patients with severe gum disease, with both approaches helping abo…
Proposed federal rule changes would eliminate the requirement for public feedback and consultation with key parties like Tribal Nations and ultimately lead to t…
Weapons buried with ancient Egyptian princesses may have been more than ceremonial decorations. Researchers studying royal mummies from Dahshur found bone chang…
A dazzling new Hubble image of NGC 6723 poses one of astronomy's biggest questions: How did the Milky Way's oldest star clusters form?…
Scientists have discovered seven new species of Madagascar’s elusive diamond frogs, using DNA from modern and century-old museum specimens to solve a long-runni…
While Earth's atmosphere protects us from harmful cosmic rays, other cosmic particles are passing through us every second.…
Mars has a hidden temperature divide, with its southern interior potentially hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and partially molten. The discovery could…
CAR T-cell therapy dramatically reduced disease activity in six people with severe rheumatoid arthritis that had resisted other treatments, with three achieving…
Quantum mechanics and Einstein’s theory of gravity explain almost everything we see in nature, yet physicists still do not know how to unite them. A new theoret…
Scientists have cracked a long-standing chemistry problem, creating nanocrystals from tough metal nitrides that were previously extremely difficult to produce a…