Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...

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This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new in-house team that wants to make scientists more productive. In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s ...

While they are obviously nuanced and different in every family dynamic, the key to nurturing healthy parent-child relationships later in life revolves around secure attachments, emotional support, and ...

Less than 40 percent of public middle schools say that they are offering computer science coursework. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up ...

This is just a strange phenomenon. Do you remember a few years ago when the chair challenge was happening? A woman can bend over, with her head on the wall and pick up a chair, then stand up. Men ...

In their new paper, Greyson and Pehlivanova outline many facets of NDEs that the NEPTUNE model—and neurophysiology more broadly—still cannot explain. For example, the NEPTUNE researchers argue that ...

When you listen to experts who are using artificial intelligence in scientific endeavors, you realize how incredibly useful the capabilities of LLMs are in scientific discovery. Why? Well, science is ...