On October 25, 2025, the author and game-show host Ken Jennings joined the senior editor Tyler Foggatt onstage at the 26th ...

Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...

Google’s Quantum Echoes now closes the loop: verification has become a measurable force, a resonance between consciousness and method. The many worlds seem to be bleeding together. Each observation is ...

How can imaging biomarkers enhance our understanding of MS? Dr Anne Cross and Dr Matthew Brier examine MRI advancements that ...

Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) hosted its annual symposium on Thursday, Oct. 16. The symposium opened with remarks from Alex Szalay – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Big Data and ...

Being named as a Nobel laureate is the ultimate prize for many scientists, but how do other science prizes compare? The Nobel prizes are the most famous awards in science — and for many, the ultimate ...

Bitcoin has a 50% probability of surpassing $140,000 this month, according to simulations using data from the past decade, says economist Timothy Peterson. “There is a 50% chance Bitcoin finishes the ...

Keep your eyes along the horizon on Monday night to see the first supermoon of the year. October’s full moon, also called the harvest moon, will be visible from Monday night into early Tuesday. The ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Pound-for-pound, the human brain is the body’s most metabolically costly organ, consuming 20% of our energy and accounting for an outsize portion of our anatomy compared with most other animals.

Cooking can be a relaxing, meditative act—that is, until your eyes start to sting unbearably. Cutting an onion often leads to an involuntary stream of tears, but a new scientific discovery has ...

Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell, was trying to test innovative designs in spacecraft when a stop-work order hit. Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Supported by Lost Science is ...