Indonesia is building a new capital city in the heart of Borneo to replace sinking Jakarta. As construction transforms one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, scientists and their indigenous collaborators are racing to record the sounds of the forest—and preserve generations of ecological knowledge before it's lost.
Equipping spacecraft with x-ray machines could boost safety for long-duration spaceflights—like a crewed mission to Mars
A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution
Smoke from northern Minnesota and western Ontario wildfires may drift over the Great Lakes and Northeast this week, bringing hazardous levels of air pollution to major cities
Case numbers of this parasite-caused illness have exploded in the last week.
Corn has taken the heat for recent Midwest summer humidity—unjustly, according to corn experts
The signature of Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-Chested Fox,” was found inscribed in a 1,000-year-old chamber beneath present-day Guatemala
Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole.
Record-breaking heat waves are beginning to blur together—here’s why and what’s making them so unbearable
Record-breaking heat waves are beginning to blur together—here’s why and what’s making them so unbearable
This massive dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $50.1 million on Tuesday
The new species, Colobus congoensis, may already be endangered
Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors
Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere
What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped?
The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing