Science

Learn why carbon-containing meteorites appear to be less “shocked” than expected, missing the effects often seen in a meteorite impact.

Scientists have pondered why Mars seemed to be missing sufficient carbonates indicative of its warm, wet past. Now, NASA’s Curiosity rover may have just solved the mystery.

Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results.

Learn about the role of olfaction in friendship, which indicates that finding a friend is, at least in some sense, related to smell.

The fluffy white canines — Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi — unveiled this week by Colossal Biosciences are closer to something like designer dogs. More precisely, they are genetically modified, hybridized modern wolves, gestated in the womb of a domestic dog.

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. With age, our brains change just as much as our bodies do — even if the shift isn’t always as noticeable. Brain volume decreases, for example, and neural connections may weaken.

What is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to corvids.

Electricity can be generated from the energy of Earth rotating through its own magnetic field — according to a provocative claim put forward by physicists today. The findings are controversial but intriguing, researchers told Nature.

You might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information.