Science

During the COVID-19 pandemic, over 500,000 K-12 students in Connecticut had to rapidly pivot to remote and hybrid learning. Now, after five years, schools have reestablished their regular rhythms, and it’s easy to imagine that the pandemic’s effects on learning…

This quiz will take you on a journey through the legends, locations, and logic behind the constellations we know and love.

A new Monash University study found that women were at higher risk of exhausting their retirement savings than men when relying on the traditional 60/40 investment mix of equities and bonds for a comfortable lifestyle.

If you think you’ve met the wildest exoplanet yet, you haven’t learned about TOI-4507 b. This strange world breaks almost every known rule for how planets should behave.

A new study from Cornell SC Johnson College of Business reveals that sharing performance information among employees can foster cooperation, but only if the circumstances are right.

ESA astronaut Marco Sieber journeyed deep underground in Italy’s Apennines for CAVES training

Three new ORCS – “odd radio circles” – have been found associated with giant, active galaxies, giving astronomers clues as to how these immense, enigmatic structures form.

A winner of this year’s Nobel prize in economics warned Monday that artificial intelligence offers “amazing possibilities” but should be regulated because of its job-destroying potential.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark matter annihilation. These colossal, luminous hydrogen-and-helium spheres may explain both the…

UMass Amherst engineers have built an artificial neuron powered by bacterial protein nanowires that functions like a real one, but at extremely low voltage. This allows for seamless communication with biological cells and drastically improved energy efficiency. The discovery could…