Science

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is “grossly misleading in the real world,” one of the Australian mathematicians behind a new study questioning the age-old maxim told NBC News.

NASA is no stranger to spacefaring robots. But “Robonaut 2,” the first human-shaped robot to fly to the International Space Station, is something special. The robot is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy center in Virginia.

There may be a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument — they’re confidently wrong. 

NOAA issued a severe geomagnetic storm alert on Wednesday after an outburst from the sun was detected earlier in the week. Here’s why they were visible in many parts of the U.S.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins.

A new moon will be pulled into Earth’s orbit by the end of September, but it won’t stay there forever. Here’s why.

Archaeologists in Iowa unearthed parts of a mastodon fossil, including its skull, that they believe dates back to when the first humans lived on Earth.

One of the best meteor showers of the year is underway, offering a chance to see shooting stars in the summer night sky.

Although the liquid has a reddish hue, chemical analysis established that “the wine contained in the urn was white,” according to new analysis published this week.

Some may already be seeing dead cicadas on the ground and while there are plenty of benefits to what comes next, the odor that comes with piles of decomposing insects could be off-putting.

NASA and others have long studied the toll of space travel on astronauts, including yearlong residents of the International Space Station, but there’s been less attention on space tourists.

A severe solar storm led to beautiful views of the northern lights Friday.

The reconstructed face is closer than expected to that of modern-day humans, meaning it’s “perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred,” experts said.

Tomorrow, leading arborists and entomologists will provide hands-on demonstrations and expert advice on safeguarding your trees and shrubs from cicada damage using effective netting methods.

Plans are underway at the Morton Arboretum to protect young trees from cicadas, but more importantly to learn from them this spring.

With an historic emergence of two periodical cicada broods approaching in Illinois, NBC Chicago’s Vi Nguyen has what you need to know.

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified as belonging to a U.S. Marine who died in a 1951 training accident decades later.

In the age of Google Earth, watches that triangulate and cars with built-in GPS, there’s something about a globe — a spherical representation of the world in miniature — that somehow endures

A mesmerizing time-lapse video has captured the elusive bloom of a corpse flower, known for its pungent odor resembling that of decaying flesh, in Dexter, Michigan.

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94.