Science

It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you...

Illustration of the Triassic dinosaur Huayracursor jaguensis Jorge Blanco. High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus,...

Fears of an AI bubble are rising CFOTO/Sipa USA/Alamy The hundreds of billions of dollars being spent...

Many science fiction and fantasy stories are enveloped in a warm glow, and it’s not just because...

Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish. Researchers determined it was probably a...

I am standing in the bathroom with a strip of litmus paper in my hand. I am...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black...

Homo heidelbergensis on the ancient banks of the river Thames in modern-day Swanscombe, UK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM,...

Ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars may have deposited ice at the planet’s equator RON MILLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY...