Meltwater from a glacier lake outburst is flooding Juneau, Alaska. Such events are likely to happen more often as climate ...

Ancient teeth found in Ethiopia belong to a never-before-seen species of Australopithecus, a branch of human ancestors ...

Spiders from the Uloboridae family, usually just a few millimeters long, have puzzled scientists because they seemed to lack venom—a substance that is widespread among spiders and “really linked to ...

Researchers are alarmed that an expansive executive order issued by President Donald Trump might upend a long-standing ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Studies show that writing or expressing what we are feeling can help adults mentally and physically. Kids are no different ...

Called subsea desalination, the idea is to remove the salt from water in the deep sea. If it worked at scale, the technology ...

An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving ...

Experts say the painful infection, spread to people from mosquitoes, can get to many countries if it finds the right hosts ...

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world ...

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old ...