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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

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

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China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet