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More than a dozen mummies of kids with facial tattoos were found at an archaeological site in Christian-era Nubia.

A new high-power laser system will soon be sent to sea for its first tests under maritime conditions.

uilt and shame arise from different cognitive triggers and rely on distinct neural systems to guide compensatory behavior. Using a controlled game that manipulated both harm and responsibility, researchers showed that gu...

3I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet - or the next interstellar object.

Everyone's favorite interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, flew past Earth overnight, coming within about 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) of our planet.

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AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?

Google plans to take a tangible first step in a new AI and computing moonshot by launching two prototype satellites to orbit in early 2027. The post Data Centers in Space: Will 2027 Really Be the Year AI Goes to Orbit? a...

From massive solar panels to the difficulty of staying cool - not to mention high-energy radiation - there are a lot of engineering problems that need to be solved before we can build data centres in space

University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, making them invisible to detection.

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming useful tools of scientific discovery

Your guide to the best sights the night sky has to offer from Dec. 20, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026 - and the gear you'll need to see them.

Researchers have revealed that so-called junk DNA contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimers disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists...

It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success

Here's how to see the Ursid meteor shower, which peaks in dark skies close to a new moon this year.

In a rare and historic achievement, Childrens Hospital Colorado successfully completed its first dual heart and liver transplant in a pediatric patient. The life-saving surgery was performed on 11-year-old Gracie Greenla...

Warm dense matter is a state of matter that forms at extreme temperatures and pressures, like those found at the center of most stars and many planets, including Earth. It also plays a role in the generation of Earth'...

Spending a few hours a week helping others may slow the aging of the brain. Researchers found that both formal volunteering and informal acts, like helping neighbors or relatives, were linked to noticeably slower cogniti...

Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular surface structure of "premelted" ice, resolving a long-standing mystery surrounding th...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have reconstructed a 130-million-year-old marine ecosystem from Colombia and found predators operating at a fo...

Behind every particle collision generated at the Large Hadron Collider is a multitude of technical feats. One of these is refrigeration on an industrial scale. To guide the particles, the thousands of superconducting mag...

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed better metabolism, stron...