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The start-up’s grant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative will fund an international information sharing system designed to flag biosecurity threats from AI

El Niño years typically mean warmer ocean temperatures and less wind shear in some parts of the Pacific—and that means more potential for hurricanes

China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar region

Music and math often come together in ways we don’t expect

From eclipse awe to vaccine debate, earthquake recovery and coffee’s benefits

The U.S. is spending millions to try to control feral hogs, but are those efforts in vain?

Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don’t exist helps explain the natural world

Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall there

This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months

The creator of The X-Files discusses what Frankenstein elements are in the newly released director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe and how Mary Shelley’s classic influenced the movie’s story

A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home

Betelgeuse, the sky’s most famous red supergiant, is well studied but poorly understood

What if artificial intelligence is used to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter

This storm, a rarity for this part of the Pacific, is expected to bring heavy rains, strong wind and possibly “life-threatening flooding” to Hawaii this weekend

There’s a reason humans have been obsessed with these celestial events for millennia—they are beautiful

Relive the 2026 total solar eclipse, as seen by a drone over Spain

A new study shows that each neuron can do multiple computations at once thanks to hundreds of sprawling branches

Researchers are finally learning the mechanism behind one of the most prescribed medicines in the U.S., primarily used to treat or prevent type 2 diabetes