The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe -- and in any hypothetical ones beyond it -- can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation. This ...

Economic models charting the world’s path to net zero emissions ... the world suggests that doing this is much harder than is ...

She started looking at old psychological studies exploring human nature and became fascinated by the Stanford Prison ...

FrontierMath's performance results, revealed in a preprint research paper, paint a stark picture of current AI model ...

Why is the expansion of our universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending age-old woodworking techniques with rocket science.

After the Halloween festivities wind down, spend the weekend at the Q108 Vintage Fair, run or walk in a half marathon, watch ...

One of the most popular vehicles of the time was the Ford Model T, which the Ford Motor Company sold between 1908 and 1927. The company mass-produced the car on an assembly line, making it faster ...

Brandon is the space/physics editor at Live Science. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Reader's Digest, CBS.com, the Richard Dawkins Foundation website and other outlets.