At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

A distant supernova exposed elements from a star’s core. The result reshapes ideas of how massive stars evolve. According to long-standing theory, stars are built in layers like onions, with each ...

Researchers can now check off another mystery from a long list of kind-of-confirmed principles in science, this time in ...

Thinking about quantum computing? It can seem pretty complicated, but services like Amazon Braket are making it ...

Lauda and his colleagues solve some of the problems with topological qubits by using a class of theoretical particles they ...

The Trump administration is planning to release its new guidelines on nutrition and diet and Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, Jr., has said the latest update could leave out experts' advice.

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to: It breathes oxygen and ...

A pair of seniors at Natick High School have written a children’s chemistry book aimed at making science more accessible and fun for younger students. Michael Coppellotti and Addisyn Yaskis, both 17, ...