It would have been the earliest example of space weather impacting human technology, but an international team of researchers found a slight problem

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These are two of the most pressing questions in science at the moment.

Elites are obsessed with the end of the world. Most people have bigger problems.

Margaret Harris reviews Trinity: an Illustrated History of the World’s First Atomic Test

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Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

New classical simulation technique makes it practical to benchmark large-scale logical magic-state preparation protocols under realistic noise conditions

Shift followed the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and represents a new type of seismic hazard

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

Witness described “explosion of feathers” after “massive” bird flew into path of tragic rider

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

Novel source for quantum optics experiments could enable experiments in space or other locations with limited electricity

Rapid cooling locked in unusual crystal structure in silicon-rich metal alloy

Artificial intelligence is radically changing how researchers in some disciplines work

At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...

Nuclear symmetry violations could show up in molecules containing pear-shaped radium nuclei

Boundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early history