Rep. Brian Babin, likely the next chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, is an outspoken advocate for greater commercial access to space, a stance the incoming Trump ...

Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom, in Baghdad emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa ...

Legendary Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa and the organization have appeared to make amends after years of conflict, with Sosa expected to be invited to the 2025 Cubs Convention. Sosa issued a ...

In the universe of science, however, innovators are finding that A.I. hallucinations can be remarkably useful. The smart machines, it turns out, are dreaming up riots of unrealities that help ...

In this study, led by Eli Susman (a former Greater Good Science Center research fellow) and his colleagues, 135 young adults were randomly assigned to practice either self-compassionate touch or a ...

The house featured in "Home Alone" has found a buyer, seven months after it was put on the market and just in time for Christmas. The 5-bedroom, 6-bathroom house located in Winnetka, Illinois was ...

Sammy Sosa issued a statement apologizing for his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs on Thursday, more than a quarter-century after smashing Major League Baseball's home run record.

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Around one in 10 Americans report less support for science now than they did before COVID. That was a November survey finding by the Pew Research Center. In addition to this decline in support ...

In our most popular video, Science News Explores assistant managing editor Maria Temming explains that a high dose of the drug can temporarily scramble a person’s unique default brain activity.

January 14, 2025 • A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about ...

The artificial intelligence start-up said the new system, OpenAI o3, outperformed leading A.I. technologies on tests that rate skills in math, science, coding and logic. By Cade Metz Reporting ...