Science

Buoyed by firebrands like Alex Jones and Marjorie Taylor Greene, Helene stirred up a toxic stew of conspiracy theories and culture war politics.

New Horizons mission continues to surprise scientists.

Nearly 400 miles from where Hurricane Helene made landfall, the North Carolina mountain hamlet of Chimney Rock Village has been all but wiped off the map.

The largest solar flare since 2017 has been spotted erupting from the Sun’s surface.

Western science has long debated when the towering pillars of the Pinnacles came to be. A new study suggests most of the spires formed when a particularly wet period dissolved the surrounding rock.

You have full access to this article via your institution. The goo also prevents insulin from reaching brain neurons that control hunger. Inhibiting production of the goo led mice to lose weight, experiments found.

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Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many moons

People generally don’t confuse the sounds of singing and talking. That may seem obvious.

Mathematicians have described1 a new class of shape that characterizes forms commonly found in nature — from the chambers in the iconic spiral shell of the nautilus to the way in which seeds pack into plants.