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The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.

Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.

“A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980.”

65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.

Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.

The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?

Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.

The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.

Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.

Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.

Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!

Back during the hot Big Bang, it wasn’t just charged particles and photons that were created, but also neutrinos. Where are they now?

Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.

The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.

The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here’s what we know on the eve of JWST’s big reveal!

Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.

It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.

The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft

The classic picture of Jupiter’s great rocky core might be entirely wrong.

Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.

For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.

Whenever someone waxes poetic about terraforming alien worlds, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the ethical implications of the proposal.

Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.

We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.

Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.

An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”