SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The ensuing pandemic has killed millions worldwide. Vaccines have made the condition much less fatal for those who have been vaccinated, ...

April has a lot to offer when it comes to popular science reading, promising to help us do everything from future-proof our ...

IN NOVEMBER 1997, a young physicist named Juan Maldacena proposed an almost ludicrously bold idea: that space-time, the fabric of the universe and apparently the backdrop against which reality plays ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

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AI predicted that a forgotten breast cancer drug could be repurposed to treat many respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, ...

An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will be the first time humans have been around the moon in half a century, and its next launch ...

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A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

An accounting of all the water that should have been and gone on Mars’s surface has come up with a discrepancy that shows ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...