An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

Legendary Prankster Adam B acts as a digital myth-buster by putting the internet's most unbelievable laboratory stunts to a rigorous physical test.

When we want to weigh something, the process is simple. We place it on a weighing machine or on a traditional balance. The number appears and we insta.

Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and ...

In 1950, the United States government decided that it would henceforth be the primary funder of university research, in the ...

Artificial intelligence-powered writing tools such as autocomplete suggestions can definitely change the way people express themselves, but can they also change how they think? Cornell Tech ...

THC doesn’t just blur memories—it can create new ones that never happened. In a controlled experiment, cannabis users were much more likely to recall words that were never shown and struggled with ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

A new study reveals that AI writing assistants are subtly shifting how humans think, and we are powerless to resist it—even when we're warned.

To unlock materials of the future, including better photocatalysts or light-switchable superconductors, researchers need to ...

Great science and engineering begin with curiosity – and more than 100 primary school children from across Portsmouth have discovered just how exciting science can be.

What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements to handle ...