A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

In June, the White House released a budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 that slashed funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent. Then, in July, the Trump administration began telling ...

In beehives on the CERN site, a buzzing team of bees collaborates to build hexagon after hexagon of honeycomb—a shape that ...

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The vast majority of stars form and reside within galaxies due to the presence of cold, dense molecular gas clouds conducive to star formation. True intergalactic space, characterized by low-density ...

New research shows that AI doesn’t need endless training data to start acting more like a human brain. When researchers redesigned AI systems to better resemble biological brains, some models produced ...

The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Keeping a phone fully charged is the only way to make sure it's ready for a long day. But there's a major difference between being "charged" and being "healthy." Most modern Androids and iPhones are ...