Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter ...

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AI is driving a transformation across all fields of science, from developing drugs for incurable diseases and improving the ...

In its prime, Cahokia was a prosperous city with a population similar to London’s. But this sprawling Native American ...

Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem.  Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity has sent up nearly 17,000 satellites. Around 11,500 ...

The risks of alcohol and other drug consumption to the user are well known, but many Americans--nearly 160 million--say they’ve been harmed by someone else’s substance use, according to a ...

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

The search for the universe’s dark matter could end tomorrow — given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded astronomers for 90 years, since the realization that 85% ...

The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in medicine and industry. Nanofibers ...

For centuries, diamonds were one of the most mysterious materials on Earth. They were beautiful, indestructible, and ...

If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent amount of alcohol relative to its body siz ...

From the archives of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, this short film from 1977 describes the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft before they launched on their journey to Jupit ...