Tornado Outbreak Live Updates: 40 Tornadoes, at Least 34 Dead in Cross-Country Storm SystemA severe weather outbreak has brought violent, long-track tornadoes to parts of the South, with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail.
Ask Ethan: Why Do Galaxies Still Collide in the Expanding Universe?The Universe is expanding, and individual, bound structures are all receding away from one another. How, then, are galaxies still colliding?
In World First, Man Leaves Hospital With Titanium HeartThe BiVACOR implant worked for 105 days while he awaited a human transplant.
Swollen Eyeballs, Baby-Like Skin, and the Overview Effect: How Astronauts Feel When They Return to EarthAs Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare to come home after their unexpected nine-month ISS stay, here is what they may experience.
NASA’s Stuck Astronauts Welcome Their Newly Arrived Replacements to the Space StationA SpaceX capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.
Biggest-ever AI biology model writes DNA on demandScientists today released what they say is the biggest-ever artificial-intelligence model for biology. The model — which was trained on 150,000 genomes spanning the tree of life, from humans to single-celled bacteria and archaea — can write whole chromosomes and small genomes from scratch.
Scientists Discover a Trait in Speech That Foreshadows Cognitive DeclineCan you pass me the whatchamacallit? It's right over there next to the thingamajig. Many of us will experience "lethologica", or difficulty finding words, in everyday life. And it usually becomes more prominent with age.
Orange Alert: What Caused the Colors on This Snowy Owl?Bill Diller, a photographer living in Huron County, Mich., had never seen a snowy owl quite like this. In January, Mr. Diller’s neighbor told him about a “red-spotted snowy owl” in the area.
Quantum Computing Has Arrived; We Need To Prepare For Its ImpactSince the development of the electronic calculator in the 1960s, the field of computing has seen tremendous breakthroughs. In the field of information processing, the last several years have been particularly revolutionary.
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movementLate last year, media outlets worldwide warned that black plastic cooking utensils contained worrying levels of cancer-linked flame retardants.
Is It Time to Redefine Time?Inside a laboratory nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, amid a labyrinth of lenses, mirrors, and other optical machinery bolted to a vibration-resistant table, an apparatus resembling a chimney pipe rises toward the ceiling.
What Shape Is the Universe?When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this is why you can navigate a new city using a map: a flat piece of paper that represents all the places around you.
Yes, Shrimp MatterI left private equity to work on shrimp welfare. When I tell anyone this, they usually think I've lost my mind. I know the feeling — I’ve been there.
Exclusive: These universities have the most retracted scientific articlesTwo days before the end of 2021, administrators at Jining First People’s Hospital in Shandong, China, issued a highly unusual report. The hospital announced that it had disciplined some 35 researchers who had been linked to fraud in publications, such as fabricating data.
Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them within WeeksTwenty years ago my husband, Mark, broke his left ankle and was in a cast and on crutches for nearly two months. Last year he broke the other ankle. But this time, after surgery, his doctor surprised us by instructing Mark to walk on it two weeks later.