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December's faint Ursid meteor shower returns under dark skies, offering a small chance of unexpected activity.

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If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Gear up to witness the longest total solar eclipse of the century in a little over 500 days from today. The last total solar ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special exhibit on its history.

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

Time magazine is set to name its person of the year for 2025 on Thursday. Among those in the running according to prediction markets is artificial intelligence itself, along with ...