Historically, the Zambezi River in Southern Africa was believed to begin its journey at a spring in northwestern Zambia. A new study suggests the river actually starts off in a shallow depression in ...

Will Midnight Pass stay open? That is the question residents and scientists asked in Sarasota on Tuesday night about the inlet hurricanes Helene and Milton reopened. California CEO accused of $7M ...

Artificial Intelligence is the present–day emerging trend in the digital world and refers to the ability of machines to perform tasks that were formerly reserved for humans. The law ushered in by ...

Colin Klein receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Andrew Barron receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Templeton ...

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark they are." NASA scientists have devised a new way to use planets that cross, ...

Itai Einav receives funding from Australian Research Council. What looks like ordinary sand, rocks or snow flowing in one direction can actually hide swirling currents that move in multiple directions ...

You can maximise your chances of winning the board game Guess Who? if you follow a strategy devised by a group of mathematicians, but it could involve some head-scratching logical conundrums. In Guess ...

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown appears to have kept a Texas scientist who was born in Korea locked inside San Francisco International Airport for over a week with little access to ...

For a star, its initial mass is everything. It determines how quickly it burns through its hydrogen and how it will evolve once it starts fusing heavier elements. It’s so well understood that ...

New University of Virginia School of Medicine research suggests an unexpected way doctors may be able to improve blood flow to the brain to battle Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) are one of the most serious contenders for dark matter—the “missing” mass supposedly constituting 85% of our universe. Given its elusiveness, dark matter ...

Modern large language models (LLMs) might write beautiful sonnets and elegant code, but they lack even a rudimentary ability to learn from experience. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of ...