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Arianna Huffington moved to England from Greece at 17, earning a master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University where she was president of its celebrated debating society. Best known as the co...
No matter what it is that humans do — what we think, feel, accomplish, believe, or vote for — our shared scientific reality is the one thing that unites us all. The same laws and rules govern everythi...
One day in 1995, Toshiyuki Nakagaki had an idea. Nakagaki, a soft-spoken Japanese biologist, studies primordial mold and other amoeboid organisms. These creatures, which have been on Earth for nearly ...
You’d be forgiven for thinking AI represents a classic Faustian bargain, as every reported blessing seems tied to a sinister curse. AI will help us navigate the immense amounts of information and data...
When it comes to the question of the expanding Universe, all observations agree that yes, the Universe is indeed expanding, in agreement with Edwin Hubble’s earliest observations dating all the ...
A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The structures are remnants of a single Paleozoic era formation, and have help...
The Cold Moon, the 12th and final full moon of 2025, rose on Thursday (Dec. 4) but will still appear bright and full on Friday (Dec. 5)
Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.
A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.
A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.
The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.
New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.
In an unusual case, a woman developed a parasitic infection in her lungs, when more typically, the parasite stays just under the skin.
People who played the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and exploited female players.
A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.
People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.
A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form.
A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.