Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for ...

Matteo Paz, son of Amy and Pedro Paz, attends Pasadena High School. He is 18 years old. He is the president and founder of the research club, where he mentors students in science competitions. Matteo ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

GenAI may be accelerating a developmental transition in how learners conceptualize programming itself.

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles, you'll see a variety of tints glisten, causing you to question what color ...

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This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ground-based Very Large Array (VLA) showing the presence of the cloud. The ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

When you throw something in the recycling bin, where does it really end up? The average person in the United States generates almost 5 pounds of trash each day, according to the Environmental ...