Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows.

The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" ...

Archaeologists excavating at a medieval cemetery in Denmark have found the burials of 77 people who were early Christians in the area but still likely harbored pagan beliefs.

Some AI models appear to show a resistance to being shut off. Are they developing a survival drive? Or is it all in how they prioritize tasks?

November's full Beaver supermoon will occur on Nov. 5, but it will be best seen the following evening as it rises into the ...

Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever discovered in our solar system. Telescope observations suggest it is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet zooming at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 ...

Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.

Researchers have gained new insights into rhinoceros evolution and the longevity of the North Atlantic Land Bridge from ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...