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To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.

Wednesday's high temperature of 98°F in Montreal, Quebec, is one of the city's hottest temperatures on record.

The formation of ancient rocks on the Moon may be directly linked to large-scale meteorite impacts.

Saji Wickramasekara was an undergrad at MIT when he came up with the idea for a cloud-based CRISPR design tool to help scientists. Eight years later, Regeneron, Gilead, Genentech and hundreds of other companies use its collaborative R&D software.

Jason Kelly is CEO and cofounder of Ginkgo Bioworks, a 2019 member of the Next Billion Dollar Startup list. Kelly spoke about the unique challenges raising capital in an environment that’s not used to dealing with technical risk.

Speakers of tonal languages such as Cantonese appear to have a genetic variant that makes it easier to hear lexical tones. But the genetic effect is only small. Having had music lessons is much more likely to predict how well someone hears lexical tones.

NASA and SpaceX will try again on Saturday.

SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a historic mission to the ISS, after poor weather finally halted launch preparations.

New York City's iconic skyline is the result of almost half a billion years of Earth's history.

Leave it to SpaceX to make a suit that can survive the vacuum of space and also use a touch screen. Take a look at the development of the SpaceX Crew Dragon, from the space suits to the touch-screen user interface that the astronauts used on the May 27 launch.