To understand how driverless vehicles can navigate the complexities of the road, researchers often use game theory—mathematical models representing the way rational agents behave strategically to meet their goals.

In samples of organic-rich black shale, scientists found evidence for oxygen depletion and hydrogen sulfide expansion in ancient seas.

Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first data showing how three distinct variations of particles called upsilons sequentially "melt," or dissociate,…

Apple's next operating system update will be iOS 16.4, with the software in beta testing as of February 16. Software updates go through several...

The hair-raising photo is helping scientists understand how the devices compete to attract strikes.

Astronauts will sport these spacesuits near the south pole of the moon as soon as 2025.

Submissions were judged on both striking visual qualities and scientific interest.

The universe is peppered with galaxies, which, on large scales, exhibit a filamentary pattern, referred to as the cosmic web. This heterogeneous distribution of cosmic material is in some ways like blueberries in a muffin where material clusters in certain ar…

NASA satellite data calculates how much carbon dioxide more than 100 nations emit, and how much their natural carbon sinks suck back up.

Scientists studying Camp IV soil samples discovered viable examples of human-associated microorganisms like Staphylococcus.

A simple 19th-century tool is still useful to ocean scientists in the age of satellites, new research shows. The research is published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

Offspring Produced From Two Male Mice Japanese scientists managed to breed offspring from two male mice. The researchers genetically altered the mice's skin cells to turn them into eggs. The scientist

It’s a planetary alignment party and you’re invited!

The battered asteroid Dimorphos also has five newly named boulders.

<p>Peering at some of the universe’s oldest galaxies, the <em>JWST</em> finds that they were surprisingly numerous, massive, and organized.</p>

Researchers have developed a more powerful and energy-efficient memristor, based on the structure of the human brain, that combines data storage and processing. The new technology, made from nanocrystals of halogenated perovskite, is not yet ready for use as …

Ingenuity's 47th flight on Mars on March 9 featured a plethora of footage from the drone, flying tens of feet above the surface, as well as its companion...

A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry has revealed the secret behind an evolutionary marvel: a bacteriophage with an extremely long tail. This extraordinary tail is part of a bacteriophage that lives in inhospitable hot springs and preys on so…

It was the second such maneuver in a week for the orbiting lab.

NASA has partnered with Microsoft to bring Artemis space missions to Minecraft.

On the fifth anniversary of Stephen Hawking's death, close friend and colleague Thomas Hertog unpacks the trailblazing physicist's thoughts on the Big Bang's origins.

The mysteries of black holes have fascinated scientists and the public alike for decades. These celestial objects have the power to warp space-time, swallow

It captured the sunset by accident.

An international team of planetary scientists has characterized some of the features of an exoplanet named HD-207496-b, located approximately 138 light years from Earth. In their paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, and curr…