New Juno data shows Jupiter is smaller and flatter than thought, forcing scientists to update models of the gas giant.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Dark matter makes up most of the universe, yet we have very little understanding of it. Scientists recently released a map using images from powerful new telescopes that gives the clearest picture yet ...

Using the synchotron particle accelerator, scientists read the erased ancient text of a Hipparchus astronomical manuscript.

It was 4:45 on a Wednesday afternoon, and the cafeteria of the Telluride Elementary School was buzzing with energy. Eleven children were crowded around a table, leaning forward, wide-eyed and ...

While some “unfilmable” novels have been successfully adapted, the books on this list might be too difficult to even attempt.

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

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Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured incorrectly. Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the ...

The latest holiday gift sensation is a handy little device that can literally rewire your brain while you use it. It’s portable, reusable and re-giftable, and comes in literally millions of different ...

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