That’s exactly what Project Hail Mary, based on The Martian author Andy Weir’s hard sci-fi novel, is wrestling with. In the movie, not-so-heroic science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is blasted ...

The White House on Friday proposed its framework for a national artificial intelligence policy, pushing for broad preemption of state AI laws and against “open-ended liability” for AI firms. The ...

The great Walt Whitman is often attributed with the saying, “Be curious, not judgmental.” Whether or not he really uttered those words, it’s a powerful reminder to always look at the world with ...

More than 8 million DOLLARS are going towards strengthening reading in Delaware classrooms. On March 12, the Delaware Department of Education announced a $1.9 million investment in the State ...

Nearly 90,000 bottles of a children’s pain reliever have been recalled due to reports of black specs and other contaminants, ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

Project Hail Mary mashes up goofy antics with high-stakes space drama.

Researchers managed to return activity to mouse brains after carefully preserving the tissue in a glass-like state.

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Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

The state used about $1 million in federal COVID emergency funding to purchase and outfit the mobile forensic service.

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...