At the center of our galaxy, there's a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars.NASA's ...

3D Illustration of the brain showing the concept of the Thalamus processing sensory signals. Why do some people cling so tightly to rigid worldviews, even when all the evidence proves them wrong? That ...

The Trump Administration is waging a war on science. In 2025 they cut one billion dollars in grants to the National Science Foundation which sponsors much of the research at U.S. universities and ...

You’ve read about the three-way Republican primary in Massachusetts to challenge Democratic Gov. Maura Healey as she runs for a second term in 2026. And Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey got himself a ...

The largest and oldest crater on the moon did not form as we initially suspected, a new study suggests. The findings hint that a specific region of the lunar surface could be more scientifically ...

So what were Goodall's contributions to primatology? And did any fall short? Live Science spoke to chimpanzee experts to unpack her enduring impact on chimp research, including how some of her initial ...

An inner evolution is taking place. The perceptive Moon leaps into bold Leo, bringing confidence and creativity to our inner world. Later on, lovely Venus aligns with unique Uranus, encouraging us to ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

In principle, I am all for fitting out a modern-day descendant of Iowa-class dreadnoughts. Whether doing so is practical is another question. But chronological age does matter. Those were hard ships ...

The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. According to a Q and A webpage ...