New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

New observations from the Webb telescope challenge the Big Bang theory, providing evidence to support the "Tired Light" ...

sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. September 13, 2024 • SpaceX Crew Completes First Citizen Spacewalk Big news in the world of commercial space flight: On Thursday morning, Jared ...

The standard model of the universe relies on just six numbers. Using a new approach powered by artificial intelligence, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues extracted ...

Sep. 17, 2024 — A key step toward reusing CO2 to make sustainable fuels is chaining carbon atoms together, and an artificial photosynthesis system can bind two of ... Using Sunlight to Turn Two ...

The year 2018 provided plenty to chew on if you're interested in science and the environment ... The world's plastic waste crisis was one of the big themes of 2018. The problem had been ...

Two years in, Congress has fully funded subsidies for chipmakers. The big boost in science, however, is way off target. While nearly $53 billion is going into reviving a homegrown semiconductor ...

In March, Nasa scientists told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) that a big fireball had exploded in Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2018. The space rock barrelled in without ...

Answering the big science questions around climate change and the diversity of life requires lots of data, and our researchers can't gather this alone. You can help. Our community science projects ...

According to the American Cancer Society, Black men are about 70 percent more likely than white men to develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and twice as likely to die from the disease ...

To honor the Institute’s pioneering past as we look ahead to its future, Big Picture Science presents a new monthly podcast ...