Most adults like to think they’re pretty smart — until a simple trivia question knocks them straight off their high horse. The truth is, even the most basic facts can slip through the cracks thanks to ...

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Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions. Sometimes the daily rigmarole of life gives us ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

NEW YORK — On a Tuesday morning at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, fans lined up to see the live-taping of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” Season 7 premiere. Before entering the studio, there were whispers of what ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in ...

A strange flash of light from near the beginning of the universe could help astronomers map difficult-to-see gas in between galaxies, like a flashbulb in a dark room. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are ...

If you were outside last night keeping your eyes peeled for the Perseids meteor shower you might have gliimpsed something you didn’t expect to see. A number of people in eastern and south-central ...