Critics fear that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services chief RFK, Jr., known for his antivaccine views, has picked a ...

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Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural ...

When Israeli aircraft recently struck a uranium-enrichment complex in the nation, Iran could have been days away from ...

President Trump will attend the G7 summit on Sunday in a nation he threatened to annex. He will also be an outlier on climate ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Switching on air-conditioning during extreme heat doesn’t have to make us feel guilty—it can actually boost power grid ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...