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A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are calling it “Phoebe”

Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

Even though astronomers didn’t detect alien tech signals from a rare interstellar visitor, the results are worthwhile, they say

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

The past year has been “filled with turmoil” for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address

The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of rejection

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces called “dark energy” affecting the cosmos?

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved