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What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has invented the MasSpec Pen, helping improve treatment and reduce the chances...

Scott Aaronson believes in the next few years, someone may achieve something called quantum supremacy—the first demonstration of a quantum computer doing something faster than...

Gulf Corvina look pretty ordinary—they're a couple of feet long and silvery. Yet the sounds they make—when millions get together to spawn—are a kind of...

Michael Mauk is working on a "digital cerebellum" that mimics the part of the brain that helps us keep from falling. It could help make...

What are the health benefits of romantic relationships? How can newlyweds avoid communication breakdowns that result from external stress? Do optimists make better partners?

The brains of people experiencing alcohol addiction have different patterns of gene expression than those without addiction. Could this lead to a new kind of...

These teeny shrimp-like critters at the bottom of the ocean food web seem totally unimportant.

Scientists borrowed tricks from evolution to develop the world's first treatment for late stage inhalation anthrax.

University of Texas at Austin alumnus Alan Stern describes the challenges, and the joys, of the last first mission to a planet.