Science

Hundreds of unfilled residency spots in emergency medicine are telling us that critical care is in trouble...

Here's how to tell whether your eye drops are safe to use and how to recognize a potential infection...

While it may seem daunting, there are still many things we can do individually to slow climate change...

Insurers face a "crisis of confidence" as global warming makes weather events unpredictable and increases damage...

Argentine mathematician Luis Caffarelli has won the 2023 Abel Prize for making natural phenomena more understandable and eliminating dreaded "infinities" from a calculation...

Hundreds of millions of people lack access to safe water and sanitation. Will the first U.N. conference on water in nearly 50 years make a difference?...

Luis Caffarelli's work includes equations underpinning physical phenomena, such as melting ice and flowing liquids...

People who engage in random acts of kindness may not fully recognize the impact of their behavior on others...

DNA from locks of Beethoven's hair reveals how the composer died, but his hearing loss remains a mystery...

A new study in rats suggests "powerhouse" organelles could help heal not only hearts but other organs damaged by lack of oxygen during cardiac arrest...

A new study suggests that 'Oumuamua, the mysterious visitor that whizzed through our solar system in 2017, may have been merely a small comet from another star...

Ocean animals are growing sicker from ingesting too much plastic...

In the climate crisis, wetlands have more economic value than new development...

To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC's latest climate report...

In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons...

Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the "pigeonhole principle," first conceived in 1622...

In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China....

Venture capitalists and start-ups don't mind losing money, but dealing with a bank run is a whole different story...

Genetic sequences show evidence of raccoon dogs and other animals at the Wuhan market sites where SARS-CoV-2 was found in early 2020, adding to evidence of a natural spillover event...

An MQ-9 Reaper drone is sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Will the U.S. or Russia recover it?...

Before exploding as supernovae, massive Wolf-Rayet stars spew gas and dust into space, seeding the formation of future stellar and planetary systems...

Satellites that can better predict extreme weather and location-based text messaging systems can warn at-risk communities of storms and other climate-related threats to help save lives, the U.N. says...

The tech industry is rushing headlong into the chatbot gold rush; we need prompt, focused regulation that keeps pace...

Florida beaches are already receiving hefty batches of brown seaweed, kicking off a year that could break records...

The Nord Stream pipeline explosions happened in a dumping ground for chemical warfare, but other contaminants proved most toxic to marine life...

The discovery highlights a need for future missions after NASA puts one on hold...

Image-generating AI is getting better at re-creating what people are looking at from their fMRI data. But this isn't mind reading—yet...

The burgeoning field of "digital bioacoustics" is helping us understand animals like never before....

The burgeoning field of "digital bioacoustics" is helping us understand animals like never before....

Texas education officials adopted changes to internal guidance on textbooks that could steer schools to buy books that misinform students about global warming...

OpenAI just released an updated version of its text-generating artificial intelligence program. Here's how GPT-4 improves on its predecessor...

In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years...

Bailouts mean customers' deposits are safe, but the Silicon Valley Bank's demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies...

A first-of-its-kind probe brings physicists one step closer to solving the proton radius puzzle...

Quantum bursts of light could help examine minute chemical reactions and reveal the quantum properties of mysterious materials...

A spider that caught and devoured a much larger shrew for its meal adds to evidence that more spiders aren't strangers to dining on vertebrates...

Collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life...

A coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Biden administration over the approval of the Willow oil- and gas-drilling project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider the climate risks, as well as harm to wildlife and subs...

A step-by-step look at how these drugs end pregnancy...

Top universities are finally bringing the excitement of the quantum future into the classroom...

Flu and COVID symptoms are easily confused. A new home test—the first for flu—tells them apart in minutes...

The research offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which two men can have biological children together, but any human applications remain in the distant future...

The research offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which two men can have biological children together, but any human applications remain in the distant future...

A vaccine pioneer tells us that shots to protect against RSV—a dangerous virus for babies and older people—are finally nearing approval....

The EPA has proposed the first nationwide limits for toxic chemicals called PFASs in the U.S. water supply...

Experts hope that with the incoming Biden administration, the federal government will finally regulate a class of chemicals known as PFASs...

The so-called winter vomiting disease has been closing schools and hitting long-term care facilities this year. Here's what you should know...

Strangely real imaginary numbers, an unsung founder of quantum physics and an endless AI conversation...

How do giant filter-feeding whales find their tiny prey? The answer could be key to saving endangered species...

The evolution of terrestrial plant roots could have kicked off large-scale extinctions by throwing the planet's mineral cycle into disarray...