A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Cement manufacture is a huge carbon emitter. A by-product of splitting seawater might make the process more environmentally friendly.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the 21st century, while ensuring scientific accuracy and acknowledging past ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Scientists created transgenic mice with woolly mammoth–like traits. But does it really bring us closer to bringing back woolly mammoths?

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Global Physics Summit, scientists aren’t convinced Microsoft has them.

As 23andMe prepares to be sold, Science News spoke with two experts about what’s at stake and whether consumers should delete their genetic data.

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer players had higher levels of glycogen, a key energy source.