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 ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936 ...

Tilly Norwood creator Eline van der Velden is planning a 'rapid expansion' of Norwood and other AI actors in a dedicated ...

While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

Known as ‘la calima,’ the desert dust plume could hit Spain, Portugal and France, bringing with it grit-laden, rust-colored ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

When one’s entire field of view is filled with one thing for days and days, it starts to have an effect. Right now I’m suffering from snow brain. I’m sure ...

The shingles vaccine is really good at preventing shingles. But new research suggests it may also be really good at preventing other ailments, like dementia and cardiovascular disease.

Mrs. Trump's message of tolerance is rooted in the concept of "democratizing knowledge" for everyone, during this new "age of imagination" when artificial intelligence provides the global community ...

Scientists say it's possible to use tiny ripples in space and time, or gravitational waves, to measure the rate at which our ...