This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on May 30, 2023 shows Shenzhou XVI crewed spaceship successfully docking with the radial port of core module Tianhe of the space station.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after the space agency highlighted how scientists found sugars essential for life ...

Meditation is widely praised for its mental health benefits, but new research shows that it can also produce unexpected side effects for some people—from anxiety and dissociation to functional ...

How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. "Science is never settled" ...

Food is complicated. We eat to stay alive, we eat for pleasure, we eat to stay healthy or get healthier. And increasingly, we eat because the food is telling us to eat more. Consider the gummy worm.

High above the Sun’s blazing equator lie its mysterious poles, the birthplace of fast solar winds and the heart of its magnetic heartbeat. For decades, scientists have struggled to see these regions, ...

Introduction: This study investigates the efficacy of large language models (LLMs) for generating accurate scientific responses through a comparative evaluation of five prominent free models: Claude 3 ...