A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet

Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost (Fla.), the youngest member of Congress, wrote a Wednesday letter urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to inves…

A new result using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This find…

Earth is home to 20 million insect species—three times more than we thought Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there ar…

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh plans to replace lagging inflation metrics with real-time data using new technology. This shift aims to enable more precise interest rate…

Writer E Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay the $5m (£3.7m) in damages awarded by a jury that found the president liable for sexually…

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth.

Police identified the defendants' "three dogs as those that attacked the two juveniles, causing the death of one and serious bodily injury to the other." The p…

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—a…

Garland Jones, recreational therapist and senior program director of the YMCA of South Florida's special needs program, teaches Mackenzie Wesley, 5, to breathe…

A California woman has admitted to using her ex-husband's Ring cameras to eavesdrop and spy on him, with his family saying she live-streamed over 700 hours fro…