News headlines often compress complex science into a simple storyline: If two things are happening at the same time, one must ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

Timothy Mousseau, a USC professor with a PhD in biology, and his colleagues have begun conducting the only on-site research ...

Last year, our most detailed map of the universe yet suggested our understanding of dark energy has been wrong for decades. The shock result is reigniting the search for a better cosmic story ...

Human taste is as diverse and malleable as the flavor of meat itself. Some cultures prize aspects of gamey-ness, such as the tang of stress in some South Korean communities, that others avoid. So ...

The new routes will take longer, and some shipping companies are adding a surcharge to compensate for the additional risk, as ...

When the performance of AI models was assessed within stratified patient subgroups, such as only high-grade breast cancers or only MSI-positive tumors, accuracy fell substantially, revealing that the ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...

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