In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

A New York Times health reporter explains what makes a good study, and how she knows which papers merit an article. Credit...Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Dani Blum New health research publishes every ...

Many smartwatches, fitness and wellness trackers now offer sleep tracking among their many functions. Wear your watch or ring to bed, and you’ll wake up to a detailed sleep report telling you not just ...

SAN MARCOS — Ricardo Henriquez and Bernard Mbithi adjusted their gear one final time, counted to three — then side-by-side, they stepped off the dock into the bright blue water of Spring Lake. Seconds ...

Back in high school chemistry, I remember waiting with my bench partner for crystals to form on our stick in the cup of blue solution. Other groups around us jumped with joy when their crystals formed ...