In a French criminal trial, conventional DNA analysis couldn’t distinguish between twin brothers, but emerging scientific ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. It's Pi Day at the pizzeria, and orders are flying. In the chaos, you randomly toss a ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

A new study explains how some supernovae are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

No bad luck here—just lots of fascinating math that explains why the 13th of a month so often falls on a Friday ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

An obscure lunar region called Rimae Bode is emerging as a high-priority landing site for China’s first crewed moon mission ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a food reward for the work. The scientists describe the behavior as foraging for ...

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our emails and phones. Now, a new study finds biased AI suggestions ...