The U.K. government is reportedly preparing to greenlight small-scale outdoor experiments aimed at reflecting solar radiation to cool the Earth.

A bill that would require students in health classes across New Hampshire to watch certain fetal development videos is moving ...

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Maryland might not be the first state that comes to mind when you think “legendary barbecue,” but that’s precisely what makes these discoveries so satisfying. Hidden between the crab shacks and ...

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that brings machine vision closer to how the human brain processes images. Called Lp-Convolution, this method improves the ...

Audiences have often praised Rick and Morty due to its wild comedy and mind-blowing science fiction storytelling.

COSMO robots carries 20 custom QDD actuators, 16 facial motors and a 1990s‑style voice— all squeezed into a cartoon shell.

British science fiction series Doctor Who is back with its Season 2, featuring the fifteenth doctor of the franchise, Ncuti Gatwa.

It's time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by two people from the show ... It looks like a classic cartoon crab. It's about the size of your palm, ...

On TikTok there are exceptional "testimonials" like Nikola Tesla or Marie Curie delivering short science-related messages that have garnered millions of views. This is just one of many examples where ...

A recently unearthed altar in Tikal holds the burial of a child and adult, but it wasn't built by the Maya. Instead, it appears foreigners from Teotihuacan built it.