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The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S.

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...

Scientific American is seeking original short documentary film proposals that spotlight the dedicated scientists working on ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Though the consequences of the cold have been widespread and acute—with travel disruptions, power outages and scores of ...

Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a power-line-themed set, drawing attention to the problem of ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this unreachable thing, like the four-minute mile” once was, says Matthew Lind, a technical specialist for U ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...