SACRAMENTO, the United States -- One-third of scientists of Chinese descent feel unwelcome in the United States, and many ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event.

Elara is AI's favorite name. A naming expert explains why it's everywhere online and why its characteristics make it the ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Generating electricity on the Moon comes with inherent challenges. For one, solar energy can only be relied upon during the two-Earth-weeks-long lunar daytime, not the equally long night. A separate ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Blue Origin is asking Florida’s DEP to let them dump millions of gallons of rocket wastewater into the Indian River. The Brevard County commission is concerned about the proposal and wants the public ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...