'I believe in human creativity,' insisted BBC director-general Matt Brittin.

Silveira juxtaposes objects and organisms in unlikely scenarios to challenge how we perceive the world around us.

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?

We asked experts to reassure us about the loyalties of the internet's favorite animal.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.

BBC employees would like Matt Brittin to travel back in time and scrub from the record his comments about an AI-generated episode of 'Doctor Who.'

With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering

The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.

Sea level on the California coast is likely to be pushed to extremes this winter by compounding forces, but these extremes could be the norm by the end of the century

NASA's Curiosity rover captured the soft morning light illuminating the Martian landscape.

LEGO's new The Marvel Skyline puts the franchise's most famous buildings from Marvel comics, movies, and TV shows on one city street.

Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.

Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...

The ‘Cornell 7’ bombshell had put the Ivy League school under nationwide scrutiny and unleashed a public maelstrom. But it seems a similar situation is

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Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological sub...

Even before the success of the electric car company that now bears his name, Nikola Tesla was a widely respected historical figure. Often, that respect could be based on surprisingly scant knowledge o...

“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.

11:57 AM PT -- TMZ has obtained video of the incident.

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

The FCC is fast-tracking a review of ABC’s local stations, sparking an unprecedented First Amendment battle over the network’s future

Some kinds of Giardia can sicken both cats and humans alike.

“Perhaps the simplest message is that the Palaeolithic was not a world made only of stone.”

Nuclear clocks may surpass their atomic forebears and help solve the universe's most difficult mysteries.

Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.

In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.

Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.

The secret to Jonathan the tortoise’s extreme longevity may be in keeping genes tidy

The analysis points to a timestamp of no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but the data leaves a lot more to be desired.

MST3K's first RiffTrax experiment, Sting of Death, drops Friday digitally. It's a fantastic reinvention of the late-'90s Sci-Fi Channel years.

One white Texan couple who live near an HBCU gets an “F” when it comes to friendliness. The couple’s home sits just steps from Huston-Tillotson

Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism—an alga.

Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.

Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates.

Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.