AI "world models" are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind popular chatbots.
Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought.
African and Commonwealth nations have called for a swift implementation of a landmark treaty protecting the high seas.
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has shaken central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least one resident and injuring dozens of people.
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.
Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing.
A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations.
A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.
Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a pest that could potentially devastate the nation’s cattle industry.
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 35 people.
Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have briefly taken shelter during a repair to fix a new leak.
A new study finds that smoke from larger wildfires is reversing more than a decade of American improvements in smog.
There were no treatments or vaccines to protect people during the recent hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship.
The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science Foundation.
Two scientists at a U.S. government lab have been charged with smuggling vials of deactivated mpox virus into the country from Africa without permits and lying about it to investigators.
Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.
Claude Lemieux's brain is being donated to the Boston University CTE Center to research the long-term effects of repetitive brain injuries, his family said Saturday in a statement released by daughter Claudia Lemieux Bishop.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is assessing damage to its Florida launch pad after a rocket exploded during a test firing.
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after spending seven months in space.
Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia have scattered flowers and paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake.
New York City residents and visitors are treated to a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.
A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.
Robots that look like dogs or people try to replicate symmetrical shapes found in nature.
NASA is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II mission.
SpaceX's newest and biggest Starship will have to wait at least another day before launching on a test flight from Texas.
An oncologist traveling on a cruise ship amid a hantavirus outbreak says he's the lone American isolated at a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska.
Neil deGrasse Tyson has turned his lifelong fascination with aliens into a new book, “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.”.
Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.
The head of the World Health Organization is seeking to reassure residents of the Spanish island of Tenerife worried about the anticipated arrival there of a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship.
Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.
A spiral galaxy's brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA's Webb Space Telescope.
Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.
Health officials in several countries are trying to identify and follow people who may have been exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship.
Oceanwide Expeditions has revealed that 30 passengers disembarked from its cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak on April 24.
The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England.
California regulators apologized to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as they settled a lawsuit that claimed a state agency showed political bias against the rocket company and its chief executive.
At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.
The Supreme Court seems divided over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer.
The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation.
Archaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of one of the victims of the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
The Atacama Desert in Chile offers some of the clearest views of the universe, thanks to its dry climate, high altitude and isolation from light pollution.
Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities less than two months ago.
The Food and Drug Administration says it will offer ultra-fast review to three psychedelic drugs being studied for hard-to-treat mental health conditions, including depression.
Apollo astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt knows what the Artemis II crew was feeling when it rocketed into space this month for a historic lunar flyby: Pure excitement and the potential for so much more.
A new study suggests that the comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system.
Desert canyons in eastern Utah will be churning this spring with huge volumes of water in a desperate attempt to keep a reservoir on the Colorado River generating electricity.
A Republican senator juggling three roles — lawmaker, doctor and political candidate seeking reelection — has walked a fine line as he questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy supported Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary but is a strong vaccine advocate and has clashed with him over vaccine policies.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin is blaming a bad engine for a failed launch that left a satellite in the wrong orbit, dooming it.
The Artemis II astronauts who ignited a lunar renaissance are giving high marks to their moonship for its performance during reentry — especially the heat shield.
Scientists for the first time have measured the instantaneous mind-blowing power of jets blasting from a black hole.
With NASA's lunar comeback a galactic-sized smash, the space agency already has the next Artemis flight in its sights.
