House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said he's ready to publicly debate Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as the government remains closed due to a lack of funding and partisan gridlock in Congress.

U.S. — Democrats explained to the ignorant Young Republicans that hateful messages aren't meant to be written in text messages, but engraved on bullets.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Trump continues brokering peace deals across the globe, Democrats warned that we are now further away from World War III than ever before.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a new light.

A laboratory technician holds a mosquito at the World Mosquito Program factory in Medellín, Colombia, on June 4, 2024. Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP via Getty ImagesThe New York Department of Health on Oct.…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais begins at 10 a.m. ET on Oct. 15, examines whether Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, creating a second majority-black…

Use cases for smart materials in space exploration keep cropping up everywhere. They are used in everything from antenna deployments on satellites to rover deformation and reformation. One of the latest ideas is to use them to transform the solar sails that could primarily be used as a propulsion system for a mission into a heat shield when that mission reaches its final destination. A new paper from Joseph Ivarson and Davide Guzzetti, both of Auburn’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, and published in Acta Astronautica, describes how the idea might work and lists some potential applications exploring various parts of the solar system.

Show us your ways, little worm.

In a development that evokes the tense shadows of the 20th century, Sweden has quietly initiated a national food stockpiling program—the first of its kind since the height of the Cold War. This unprecedented step, announced amid escalating global uncertainties, signals a profound shift in the Nordic country’s approach to national security. As hybrid threats […]

Astronomers have detected a colossal clump of dark matter lurking over 10 billion light-years from Earth. This invisible behemoth, boasting a mass equivalent to a million suns, is the smallest such structure ever identified using gravitational lensing—a technique that bends light like a cosmic lens to reveal hidden masses. The discovery, detailed in a study […]