For centuries, scientists have tried to measure the speed of light directly and failed every single time. Light moves so fast that no instrument we’ve built can catch it in the act. Instead, we rely ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those galaxies, and the discovery is thanks to an artificial intelligence tool that was ...

By studying faint distortions in galaxy shapes across a vast region of sky, scientists probed the hidden structure of the universe. In the standard picture of the universe, nearly everything is hidden ...

A new bioluminescent tool allows neurons to glow on their own, letting scientists track brain activity without harmful lasers ...

A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has championed solar power and other renewable energy sources for the sake of humanity ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, makes us question the very existence of time – and how much we can manipula ...

For thousands of years, immortality has belonged to myths and legends. Now, a Silicon Valley biohacker says science may ...

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...