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Is the Artemis II mission worth it? Your answers ranged from serious skepticism of the costly program to excitement over our continued exploration.

When Renee Mustered stepped onto the WILDx stage in Beverly Hills, she did not arrive with a polished business pitch. She arrived with a story most people never speak aloud and a mission that began in ...

A new era of sports science, in which women are not viewed through the prism of “little men,” is gradually emerging.

Star Trek is packed with all sorts of alien, both on the Enterprise and throughout the final frontier, and these are the ...

As humanoid robots enter the real world, new studies suggest that people project human racial biases onto them—but the ...

Trump’s fandom puts him at odds with the pundit Ann Coulter, who once declared, “Any growing interest in soccer can only be a ...

A new Olympic policy on genetic testing could reshape women’s sports and raise questions for intersex and cisgender athletes ...

Despite claims from the Trump administration that it was going after "the worst of the worst," newly released data shows that ...

Victor Wembanyama weighed in on Jaylen Brown calling him an alien, and his answer says a lot about what’s driving him right now. Wembanyama values awards over praise, seeing “alien” label as ...

Over hundreds of thousands of years, humans somehow evolved a type of intelligence found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, at least on Earth. According to the most famous theory describing the ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...