In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...

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The oldest person with verified birth and death records is Jeanne Calment (1875-1997), a woman from Arles, France, who died at 122 years and 164 days. Seen here in her 40s, she is the only person ...

Last week, the two top officials at the National Institutes of Health—the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research—debuted a new plan to help Americans weather the next pandemic: getting ...

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Russell Kulsrud, Princeton professor of astrophysical sciences, emeritus, died on Sept. 23 at the age of 97. “Russell was one of the people that established the reputation of Princeton Plasma Physics ...

100 years ago, this unlikely duo discovered the first cancer ‘germ.’ By Bill Gourgey Published Oct 4, 2025 12:00 PM EDT Image: Popular Science Composite Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Why do people get sick? Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s highest-ranking public-health official, and he may chalk it up to their terrain. For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that ...

Six people in New York City have died this summer from Legionnaires’ disease, and more than 100 others have been sickened. Legionella bacteria and other bacteria grown from the same water ...

Unlike typical AI research, where a model predicts outcomes or cleans up data, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta did something unusual. They trained a neural network to discover new physics.

A new startup called Germ is bringing end-to-end encrypted messaging to the Bluesky social network, allowing its users to have a more secure option for chats than Bluesky’s existing DMs. After over ...

I am stunned by the irony of two articles that appeared alongside each other in the Metro section of Saturday’s Globe. The first, “Health experts say germ theory denial explains RFK Jr.’s views,” ...