To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Once dismissed as empty expanses between galaxies, cosmic voids are becoming one of the most promising tools for probing the universe’s biggest mysteries.

A rapidly growing industry often overprescribes treatment to young children with autism, who spend as many as 40 hours a week at the facilities.

Jellyfish myths and misconceptions abound. Here’s how to stay safe this beach season around these gelatinous wonders.

The industry has grown rapidly, straining state budgets. A focus on finances has led to overbilling, fraud and even harm.

A fascinating, unclassifiable orb found in the Gulf of Alaska is not an alien object, as some speculated, but the remains of a poorly documented animal.

If a problem with the launch tower is fixed, SpaceX will try to launch on Friday evening.

The multifarious methods we use to gather experimental data ultimately boil down to counting or comparing.

With 263 antennas spread across the U.S. and Mexico, the Next Generation Very Large Array, would join a new wave of radio astronomy.

A Florida community deploys AI-powered robotic beehives to protect declining bee populations that pollinate roughly 75% of the crops Americans eat.

The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly hasn’t been seen in the wild since 2022. The caterpillar was the last individual in human care.

When people disappeared from the landscape, as they did during the pandemic, wild animals changed how they used space and resources, scientists found.

A man was arrested in Connecticut this week after officials in Virginia say new evidence links him to the murder and rape of a woman 40 years ago.

The impending arrival of El Niño will help keep the number of storms low. But it only takes one landfall to create a catastrophe.

The administration will delay a phase out of hydrofluorocarbons, potent planet-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration.

The administration will delay a phase out of hydrofluorocarbons, potent planet-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration.

SpaceX is set to launch a new prototype of its Starship megarocket on a key test flight Thursday — one that could take astronauts back to the moon

People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said.

The giant rocket is scheduled to lift off on Thursday after a seven-month pause and a month before SpaceX’s planned public offering.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science questioned the credentials of Jim O’Neill, tapped to lead the National Science Foundation.

The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.

Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said residents should feel assured that most properties cleared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers don’t have hazardous amounts of lead. At least one outside scientist is skeptical.

Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

Neptune’s moons have long provided evidence of a cataclysm four billion years ago. A new study suggests one moon may have made it through.

Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina.

To some Africans, the claim that the continent’s largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.

In northern Norway, Sami people fear a copper mine will disrupt their traditional lifestyles.

By the time the American surgeon who contracted Ebola was flown to Germany, he was barely able to stand on his own, according to leaders of the Christian missionary group where he worked.

Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter.

Colossal Biosciences says it hatched live chicks from artificial eggs for the first time, a step toward potentially reviving extinct birds like the dodo.

The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.

The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen.

Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.

A newly discovered asteroid estimated to be about 62 feet wide will zoom near Earth on Monday, though it is not expected to pose a threat to the planet.

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing.

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV.

The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t.

SpaceX plans to launch a new version of its Starship rocket — a prototype of the system that NASA hopes will carry its astronauts to the moon — on Tuesday.

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab.

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power.

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

California’s spate of mushroom poisonings, which has killed four people and hospitalized 43 others, is the largest known outbreak of its kind in U.S. history, experts say.

A new scaling law that relates particular architectural choices to loss helps identify models that improve throughput by up to 47% with no loss of accuracy.

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless.

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms.

By focusing on specific failure points and suggesting targeted solutions, a new automated prompt-engineering framework improves prompt performance without compromising existing functionality.

Since the L.A.-area fires, Altadena residents have found toxic compounds such as lead and asbestos in their living spaces and lots. Many have not returned home.

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak.

Scientists think the hantavirus, the deadly pathogen that has infected 11 passengers on a Dutch cruise ship, could be as old as humans.

The Pentagon on Friday began releasing “never-before-seen” files relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena — previously and more infamously known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs — that the government has been holding onto for decades –The files have been a source of intrigue and fascination for generations of skeptical Americans wondering if we’re alone in the universe.

One of the most powerful El Niño events ever recorded could form in the coming months, according to new forecasts, raising concerns about global temperatures, hurricanes, drought conditions and other extremes this year

Amazon engineers and scienitsts have created new tools to optimize delivery networks under uncertainty — and keep them adapting without missing a beat.

NASA over the weekend released thousands more photos from last month’s Artemis II mission around the moon.

Agentic mechanism enables Amazon and vendors to optimize supply chain management without disclosing private information.

A potentially hazardous asteroid named Apophis will fly unusually close to Earth on April 13, 2029, but NASA says there is no risk of impact.

Amazon scientists and policy experts discuss how the company’s responsible-AI pipeline embeds safety and values throughout the AI development lifecycle.

The Artemis II crew spoke with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz after their historic 10-day lunar flyby, calling the record-breaking mission a glorious experience.

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on Wednesday, his research institute announced.

Trump invited the astronauts to the White House when he spoke with them in the middle of their journey around the far side of the moon, saying he wanted their autographs.

A new framework provides a statistical method for estimating the likelihood of catastrophic failures in large language models in adversarial conversations.

Scientists revived a 24,000-year-old microscopic organism frozen in Siberian permafrost, offering new insights into how life endures extreme conditions.

Octopuses' earliest relatives may have been gigantic predators hunting during the age of dinosaurs, according to new Hokkaido University research.

Wildfires raging this week in southern Georgia and northern Florida were fueled by a combination of hot and windy conditions, severe drought and dried-out vegetation from past hurricanes all feeding the blazes

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told NBC's Lester Holt that lessons from the Artemis II moon mission are informing plans to build d on the lunar surface.

NOAA and Smithsonian scientists have identified the mysterious golden orb found two miles deep in the Gulf of Alaska as part of a rare giant deep-sea anemone.

A destructive "jumping worm" species — also known as a "crazy worm" or "snake worm" — is threatening gardens in Colorado and the West, state officials said.

The Justice Department on Thursday announced that it was moving to ease restrictions on state-licensed medical marijuana, opening the door for more research and treatment options

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 watts of energy per year.

The FBI said Monday that it would lead an effort to hunt for any possible connections between the seemingly unrelated deaths or disappearances of at least 10 scientists and government workers over the past few years

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded the Artemis II mission around the moon, posted a video of Earthset taken from the far side of the moon.

A new report from the federal government says an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry in 2024 offset decreases in several other industries.

Isabelle/HOL's balance of expressiveness, automation, and scalability enabled the world's first formally verified cloud hypervisor.

In an interview with Global News, the Canadian astronaut reflected on his historic lunar journey and shared how it reinforced his perspective on humanity.

Although it has been nearly a week since the four Artemis II astronauts completed their NASA mission around the moon, the crew said they have not yet fully processed the journey.

The four-person crew — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — splashed down in the Pacific Ocean last Friday.

A single, optimized LLM unifies what previously required multiple models and can serve as a reasoning partner for medical chemists.

Built in collaboration with the Gray Lab at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, the Antibody Developability Benchmark is powered by one of the most diverse antibody datasets in public literature, enabling transparent performance evaluation for AI-guided antibody design.

NASA targets the moon's south pole for a future base as Artemis III prepares to test critical docking maneuvers in Earth's orbit launching next year.

Four Artemis II astronauts completed a historic 10-day mission around the moon, splashing down off the coast of San Diego on Friday evening.

Amazon’s RuleForge system uses agentic AI to generate production-ready detection rules 336% faster than traditional methods.

How automated reasoning reconciles the demands of security, performance, and maintainability.

A floating Nutella jar aboard NASA's Artemis II went viral, with internet users calling the zero-gravity moment the greatest free advertisement in history.

The Artemis II crew enters a historic communications blackout Monday as their spacecraft slips behind the Moon's far side, breaking distance records.

NASA says the estimated maximum distance from Earth during today's flyby by the Orion spacecraft will exceed 406,000 kilometres, beating the 400,171 kilometres set by Apollo 13.

Jeremy Hansen, along with two U.S. astronauts, took part in a live question-and-answer session from aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft to answer questions submitted by Canadian kids.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman says Artemis II would not be at this moment without President Trump as Orion prepares to pass the far side of the Moon.

Low-rank adaptation, data augmentation, and chain-of-thought reasoning are among the techniques enabling accent-free polyglot outputs, improved expressiveness, and reliable synthesis.

If all goes to plan, Calgary-born Jenni Gibbons won't be on the rocket — but she will still perform a critical role in its launch and voyage through space.

The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in a lunar orbit.

Simplifying and clarifying the assembly code for core operations enabled automated optimization and verification.

Ablation study clarifies trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency when using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune AI models.

By learning the idiosyncrasies of accumulated layers of legacy systems, AI agents can preserve institutional knowledge and provide a unified interface to a range of services.

As AI agents become more autonomous, the key challenge isn't what they can do; it's how to design the human side of the equation.

What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs — and what comes next.

It's Natalie Wilkie's fourth career Paralympic gold medal for the Canadian flag-bearer and her ninth Paralympic medal overall. She also won a silver on Saturday.

As AI models grow larger, they become less insightful, not more. To ensure that they continue to learn, we need to reduce their inference time.

The mysterious depths of the Antarctic Ocean are home to only a handful of sea creatures.

Amazon Scholar Aravind Srinivasan coauthored a 2014 paper about forecasting civil unrest in Latin America, which won a test-of-time award at KDD 2025.

NASA Commander Jessica Meir leads an international crew, including France's second woman in space, to the ISS for eight-month mission of scientific research.

Just for fun, Xavier McKeever and his cross-country ski teammates once tasked ChatGPT to design a training plan for them.