As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

The universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry, where matter significantly outweighs antimatter despite their theoretically equal creation at the Big Bang, remains a major unsolved problem in physics.

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

Key Takeaways As global interest in the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to skyrocket, parents everywhere are finding themselves fielding a new kind of question from curious young ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents, and ...

A new study by researchers in Spain and Italy suggests a bold alternative to the traditional Big Bang story: rather than cosmic inflation, gravitational waves may have been the driving force behind ...

Yoga and meditation practitioners claim that breathing can calm the mind. Skeptics may think this is all in their heads. Well, it is. In the brainstem, to be precise. Researchers have found a subgroup ...

For years, scientists have struggled to explain how planets form from clouds of gas and dust. In theory, small particles ...