A polar bear at the Oregon Zoo has become the internet’s newest obsession — and it’s easy to see why. A TikTok video posted by the zoo’s official account shows the bear gleefully swishing around in a ...

You can safely eat foods with silicon dioxide, which is used to improve the texture and quality of some processed foods. Make ...

A review paper led by researchers from the University of St Andrews highlights the transformative potential in the use of ...

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between the stars. On its path, Earth continuously accumulates iron-60, a rare ...

A colossal valley near Mars’s equator is revealing dramatic clues about the Red Planet’s watery and volcanic past. Stretching ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

In 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the ...

Bob Dylan, a native of the Upper Midwest, famously crooned that “the times they are a-changin’.” Nowhere is that more prescient now than in and around the Midwest’s largest city, Chicago, which is ...

Earth is flying through the radioactive ashes of an ancient exploded star, and Antarctic ice preserved the evidence.

Ms. Sun writes about A.I. and Silicon Valley culture on Substack. Most people I know in the A.I. industry think the median person is screwed, and they have no idea what to do about it. I live in San ...

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...

Deep under Antarctic ice, a 748-foot ice core recovered by the SWAIS2C project reveals past warm, ice-free periods on the ...