Two new papers claim to show that AI has abilities that we should know about—including cloning itself. These technologies ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

The IUCN warns that over 400 fungi species face extinction due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change.

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I’ve always been envious of people who have an easy time placing the word “home.” They can instantly picture their parents, hair graying and skin wrinkling, sitting on the couch watching “Seinfeld” ...

A new study is helping scientists clarify how clouds can affect climate, while also dimming the prospects for some proposed geoengineering ideas.

The United States of Africa is the political uniting of all African and Afro Caribbean nations, along with Papua New Guinea, ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

Microplastics increase antibiotic resistance and damage plants' ability to photosynthesise, writes Fionn Ferreira ...

MIT applied mathematics instructor Karol Bacik and an international team of researchers have pinpointed a precise factor that ...

On March 28, 2005, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake jolted the western coast of Sumatra, killing about 1,000 people and destroying ...

What’s striking about this list of officially acceptable builders is the name it glaringly omitted: the most beloved—and most ...