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An unidentified interstellar object, possibly eight times Jupiter’s mass, may have disrupted the solar system’s planets.

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Paola Antonelli has a litmus test for worthy design. People often ask the Museum of Modern Art’s senior curator of ...

The classes using the new lab are not necessarily in the hard sciences but instead communications, marketing or psychology.

In “goes around in circles, til very, very dizzy,” the Chinese artist raises urgent questions about where human creativity ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...