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

A new study suggests that people with obesity have higher rates of mortality and hospitalization from a variety of infections from viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria ...

SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions ...

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

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence ...

Though the consequences of the cold have been widespread and acute—travel disruptions, power outages and scores of deaths—the warm western winter will also take a toll. Its consequences, however, will ...

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 ...

Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way ...

Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz of Brown University tackled the problem in a recent study by working backward from an existing polyhedral torus to answer questions about what would be needed to ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

The decorated Olympic skier has had numerous injuries and a partial knee replacement but still plans to go for the gold at ...