A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.
As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting…
The First Amendment is not just about the right to speak without fear of jail. It’s also about ensuring that government…
Even fossil fuel companies have found that clean energy can reduce costs.
Public health calls many deaths ‘preventable,’ but that term can mask how policy, access and geography shape who gets…
Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict,…
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter-point during its September meeting.
In 2024, seven times more Americans were struck by lightning than were convicted of federal mortgage fraud.
Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress…
Learning is understanding, requires challenge and takes time, a science education scholar explains.
When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about…
STEM jobs – ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber – tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented…
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form…
Trying to change someone’s mind can seem futile. But there are approaches to political discourse that still matter, even…
Increasing awareness can help close the gap on the number of people signed up for emergency alerts, but that won’t happen…
As social media platforms make it easier for millions of people near and far to witness public violence, the harmful effects…
The Moon influences ocean tides – and ocean tides, in some ways, influence the Moon back.
The Health To Go machines in Pennsylvania are in a YMCA in Reading and outside an emergency department in Harrisburg.