Statins are a cornerstone of heart health, but muscle pain and weakness cause many patients to quit taking them. Scientists have now identified the precise molecular trigger behind these side effects.

As power companies build hybrid projects combining solar, wind, battery storage and hydrogen assets, they face the challenge of integrating dozens of different control systems and data types from ...

April 27 - The fashion industry has long treated sustainability as a marketing tool. Geopolitics is about to make it a survival one. Right now, 70% of the textiles used to clothe the world’s eight ...

Note: uvx pywho is not recommended — it runs inside uv's ephemeral sandbox, so the output reflects that temporary environment instead of your actual project. Always install pywho into the environment ...

A dark patch in Mars' Utopia Planitia region has grown significantly since it was first photographed in 1976. Scientists have a loose understanding of what it is, but they can't properly explain its ...

Astronomers have used the XRISM (X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) X-ray spacecraft to discover that a star is being slowly devoured by an elusive stellar companion, solving a mystery that has ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers, marking the ChatGPT maker’s latest investment in the fast-growing market for coding and developer services. The deal, ...

Jeffrey Godsick, EVP, Global Partnerships & Brand Strategy; Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, Jennifer Chalhub, VP of Production Resources, Warner Bros. Pictures; and Jillian Raskin, ...

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious. UBC ...

Over the past few weeks, a baby macaque at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo named Punch has taken the internet by storm. Viral videos capture the 7-month-old monkey getting shoved away by older members of ...