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Humanoids, robotaxis and industrial bots dominate the year’s biggest consumer technology show. Their usefulness remains an open question

Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is why

Almost one in 10 people who visited a doctor in the U.S. in the week ending on December 27 were there for flulike symptoms, according to new data

The first GLP-1 pills for weight loss are hitting U.S. pharmacies. But how will they be prescribed?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the recommended number of vaccines for children to those that protect against 11 diseases instead of the protections against 17 illnesses that it recommended previously

Scientists detected gas at least five times hotter than previous theories had predicted inside a galaxy cluster from the early universe

Scientists observed an active region on the sun for a record 94 days, marking a “milestone in solar physics”

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways

Behavioral economist Katy Milkman explains why most New Year’s resolutions fail and shares how science-backed strategies can build habits that last.

A fossil belonging to an ancient hominin that lived seven million years ago bears the hallmarks of bipedalism, according to a new study

These birds’ drilling approach is more like extreme tennis playing than weight lifting

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time

The new year has arrived, and the Quadrantid meteor shower is coming in hot. Here’s how to see this often-spectacular shower at its peak

Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space—without the need for humans

A galaxy cluster discovered on New Year’s Eve in 2020 shines in a new image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral galaxies

The brutal respiratory infection has infected tens of thousands and killed at least 13 people in the U.S. in 2025

Health officials have agreed to assess pending medical research grants after a Trump administration antidiversity purge put them on ice

NASA’s new boss Jared Isaacman hinted that he could break with Texas lawmakers’ push to move iconic space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Houston