Data from the Webb Space Telescope may hold evidence of ancient "dark stars," which would've been powered by dark matter, not nuclear fusion.

It’s Nightmare on Nerd Street—and your science-inspired Halloween costume could win SciFri’s first-ever costume contest.

With gaps in weather balloon data, the National Weather Service didn’t have accurate projections of the worst flooding from ...

AI is everywhere these days, and though there’s debate about how useful it is, one area where experts think it could be game-changing is scientific research. It promised to be particularly useful for ...

While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than ...

It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map useful, you have to ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

What does AI do with human feelings? To investigate its readiness to serve as a therapist, a neuroscientist took ChatGPT for ...

The authors of “Food Intelligence” answer listener questions and discuss how our food systems make staying healthy an uphill battle.

A nutrition scientist found that the reality show’s contestants’ metabolisms slowed after participating—and didn’t recover.