Scientists finally caught solar neutrinos triggering a rare atomic transformation once thought nearly impossible to observe.

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A closer look at Atlas’s unconventional get-up motion shows how the robot tests balance and hardware before committing to a ...

Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe, often called "ghost particles" because they rarely ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

Dr. Flemmie Kittrell was a Black home economist whose research in the field of early childhood education shaped the way we think about child development today. She became the first Black woman to earn ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...

With contributions from Brown faculty and students, the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment analyzed the largest dataset ever collected by ...

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, is one of Scientific American’s best fiction picks of 2025. In the novel, aliens talk ...

When a man in a Batman suit stepped onto a busy Milan subway, passengers suddenly became far more likely to give up their seats to a woman who looked pregnant. In that situation, about 67 percent of ...