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While most people are fast asleep, some ultra-introverts are going about their lives. They challenge a core assumption of psychology: that all humans need social connection.

Italian authorities say people have been injured after venturing too close to the red-hot lava.

Tapping low-hanging clouds could be a cheap way to boost dwindling water supplies, according to new research.

It could change what we know about apex predators.

WalletHub analyzed American cities based on their performance across four categories

Microsoft has unveiled a new chip called Majorana 1 that it says will enable the creation of quantum computers able to solve "meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades".

One evening in 1951 astronomer William Wilson Morgan was strolling home from Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin when he looked up at the night sky and had a “flash inspiration ... a creative intuitional burst.” It solved one of the great mysteries of astronomy.

By, Contributor. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers freelancing, AI, and remote work. You've probably heard of the often-repeated and almost over-used phrase, "AI won't take your job; it's the people using AI that will take your job.

Steven Weinberg: A Life in Physics Steven Weinberg Cambridge Univ. Press (2024). ‘Big Steve,’ his students called him. Steven Weinberg was not physically imposing, but was an intellectually dominant and much-revered figure in the scientific community and on the public stage.

You can cite peer-reviewed research in support of almost any claim, no matter how absurd. Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.