A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Cement manufacture is a huge carbon emitter. A by-product of splitting seawater might make the process more environmentally friendly.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

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A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.