SCIENCE

Scientists discover largest new impact crater in the solar system ever—on our moon

The moon has no shortage of craters. But a newly discovered pit discovered by NASA scientists has proven to be…

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Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount of power as a human brain?

Right now, your brain is recognizing the shapes of these letters, analysing their meaning, and holding a stream of thought…

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Missing pages of priceless missing Henry VIII–era manuscript finally found

A 600-year-old book that once belonged to a personal attendant of King Henry VIII is helping to reveal the shifting…

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How our sense of beauty takes shape in the brain

Stand in front of Turner’s Sun Rising Over Water (1825-30) and something odd tends to happen. The painting holds you,…

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El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people

El Niño conditions are helping to fuel wildfires across Indonesia, leaving some 100,000 people ill or injured, according to the…

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Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain

We all know the power of music to make us feel better when stressed. But this relaxing effect goes much…

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Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering

Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a…

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House passes stopgap bill that pauses changes to federal science grant-making process

A Trump administration effort to give political figures control over a large swath of U.S. science funding is off the…

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could find alien Earths—but not like you think

When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center as early as Sunday morning, it will be…

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Is there a ‘window of opportunity’ to prevent Alzheimer’s in women?

One of the most enduring mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease is why women are more likely to develop it and other…

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