Visual motion information is essential to guiding the movements of many animals. The establishment of direction-selective signals, a hallmark of motion detection, is considered a core neural ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Anna Usher, a 30-year-old Georgia-based mom, shared a heartwarming video on Instagram of her daughters — Jovi, 5, and Given, 6 — delivering the sweetest news ever: that their parents are expecting ...

• SpaceX’s Starship megarocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever built — successfully completed an hour-long test flight. • The company has had a rocky year of test missions with this generation ...

When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

Each week, Prudence asks readers for their thoughts on the letters she’s received. Her reply will be available every Friday only for Slate Plus members. Re Got Bitten: I’ve had some awful, rude, ...

President Trump hosted the Emir of Qatar aboard Air Force One as he made his way to Asia in a show of thanks for his role in helping shape the Israel-Hamas peace deal. “Peace to the Middle East. They ...

His earliest skeptics are now his strongest believers. Becky Skattebo — who was already a parent of three and herself in the medical field, so experienced with infant issues — could not place what was ...

A second field test of the Army’s next-generation command and control prototype starts Monday, just three months after the Army awarded Anduril the contract to build it. The 4th Infantry Division will ...