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A state of the AI industry report shows that 2024 was a breakthrough year for small, sleek models to rival the behemoths

Cornell is being slammed with stop-work orders that will seriously impact department of defense research linked to the Air Force and military safety, sources tell Scientific American

President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that keep aging coal generators running and undermine efforts to rein in pollution, including mercury and arsenic emissions

The Trump administration’s mass federal firings include the scientific investigators who make dangerous workplaces safe for millions of people

Scrolling on social media at bedtime is particularly disruptive to sleep. Here’s why

A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel

A little math from the 1600s can make what people send to a printer more vulnerable

People on TikTok and other social media say they feel more alert when they have had fewer hours of sleep—but sleep scientists warn this is a false sense of energy

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang

Bacterial vaginosis is an irritating overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. A new study has found that some cases of the condition should be treated like a sexually transmitted infection.

Colossal Bioscience says it has “de-extincted” the dire wolf, but other scientists disagree and say more important conservation science is being lost in all the hype

Agency officials said Monday that NOAA would continue to maintain the Joint Polar Satellite System, crucial weather satellites, after a previous memo suggested maintenance would be deferred

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his legacy and the future of physics

A new surgical procedure to permanently change eye color is gaining traction in the U.S. But many ophthalmologists fear long-term unknowns

New studies underscore the difficulty of implanting entirely fictional events in a person’s recollection

The Trump administration decision to halt funding endangers immunization of 75 million children over five years. More than 1.2 million deaths could result

Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of tangled strings in higher dimensions

The decision by the Trump administration to defer maintenance of the Joint Polar Satellite System threatens to degrade the accuracy of weather forecasts

Our instinct is to protect our kids from failure. But learning from failure is an important life skill that can’t be overlooked

Overall, “space miso” tastes just like regular miso—but slight differences in its microbial profile suggest that extraterrestrial conditions affect how microbes grow and flourish