Science

Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study by a certain “Mawson” that had...

A telescope in Chile has captured footage of Asteroid 2024 YR4, an asteroid large enough to wipe out an entire city. While the city-killer asteroid is currently speeding away from...

On June 30, 1908, Akulina, a reindeer herder in Siberia, left her tent to greet the day. It was about 7 a.m., and all she could see for miles around...

Astronomers have been mapping vast cosmic structures for decades, from galaxy clusters to immense superclusters. But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known object in...

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants create the foundation of basic science knowledge on which major...

Engineers are finding new ways to blend AI with tech breakthroughs. The latest development is a light-manipulating AI chip that is so small it can sit at the end of...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said Monday that its Euclid space telescope has detected a rare bright halo of light around a nearby galaxy. Known as an Einstein ring, the...

The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as “The Great Geometer,” according to a Liberty University publication. “When Apollonius...

California joined 21 Democratic-run states Monday in a lawsuit to stop cuts to billions of dollars in NIH funding that supports medical research, alleging the action will hurt Americans who...

Welcome to the golden age of reverse philanthropy, an era in which America’s richest barons, who were once committed to funding medical research, the arts, and international aid, are now...