On this day in science history Sept. 17, 1999: Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver ...

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Chorus is inviting audiences to embark on a breathtaking journey through space and sound with Beyond the Stars: A Cinematic Journey Through the Universe, calling it a ...

The new science book "First Contact" is a vivid, humorous and deeply informed exploration of the many ways humanity has ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis were recognized for work that made behaviors of the subatomic realm ...

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John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre ...

The reasonable mind must hold that our universe has one beginning,' reads the thesis of the book, 'God, the Science, the ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

Deep beneath South Dakota, scientists are closing in on one of the greatest mysteries in the universe — the true nature of ...

G eorge Smoot, who won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the "discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation” in 2006, has died at home at the age ...