Seventeen miles of underground tunnel, thousands of superconducting magnets, and protons whipped to a fraction below light ...

Researchers used 1 million data points and a machine learning algorithm to estimate groundwater stores with higher resolution than ever before.

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We've crossed a threshold: machines that appear to relate. The promise is real, but so is the risk of eroding human identity.

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

Now, scientists have devised a clever new way to predict where the pieces may land.