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The next space race is not about making rockets faster, bigger or more capacious, but about reusing them reliably and cheaply. The US is well ahead, but can China catch up?

The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.

GPT-6 Astra has been used to solve a centuries-old cipher used to convey strategic military information between Napoleon's troops.

To succeed at scale, quantum computing must differentiate itself from AI, says columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. But the two technologies are already mixed up in the eyes of the public

Kratos is the call sign of one of the leading drone pilots in Ukraine. As part of the Aquila regiment, 3rd Army Corps, he has taken down almost 1000 enemy drones

Orbital data centers and factories will need a lot of energy. A Florida startup hopes to deliver it with lasers. The post Star Catcher Is About to Beam Power Between Two Satellites for the First Time appeared first on Si...

Scientists identify a neural circuit linking the biological clock to dopaminergic neurons and the mushroom body to control wakefulness.

A new study reveals functional brain wiring changes separate Alzheimer's from normal aging before symptoms appear.

A new study discovers a brain circuit in the anterior hypothalamus acting as a "volume knob" that dials up future stress reactivity after trauma.

A phenomenon known as true polar wander, different to the movement of the magnetic poles, may be more common and more dramatic than previously known

Working in close collaboration, researchers from Paderborn University, the University of Basel and Ruhr University Bochum have made a breakthrough in quantum communication. In their recently published paper in the journa...

Physicists have used radioactive lutetium to create what they say is the most accurate atomic clock ever, keeping time perfectly up to 19 decimal places.

A new computational model reveals why modern wide-gamut displays look different to different viewers due to retinal cone variability and lens aging.

Live Science can exclusively reveal a video of Gabon's mysterious cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles snatching bats in a never-before-seen hunting behavior, ahead of the series premiere of "Africa: Earth's Wild H...

Most of the drones being used by Russia in the war with Ukraine are controlled by cables several tens of kilometres long. A new defensive tool cuts the cables to stop the drones

Psychologists have long studied the deficits associated with being raised in adversity. They're now discovering the hidden strengths that can emerge in those settings.

An attempt by Anthropic's Claude failed to prove the Riemann hypothesis, but it did produce something genuinely useful: inspiration.

Many systems in nature can settle into several different stable states, with the final state depending on their starting conditions. However, the boundaries separating these states are often far more complicated than the...

African savannah elephants use a variety of calls to communicate, and now machine learning has shown that they tune their deepest sounds to match those of other nearby elephants

Dried amniotic membranes from donated placentas can be wrapped around delicate nerves during prostate cancer surgery to hasten the time to a first erection after the procedure

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, there is some hard-hitting popular science to look forward to this mo...

SpaceXs changing priorities, the war in Ukraine and a lack of competitors are all causing a launch crisis that might last years