James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should…
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration…
Breweries nationwide create waste at several stages of the beer-making process. Repurposing parts of this waste could improve…
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.
Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for signals…
Cylinder seals were intimately tied to their owner, showcasing their identity, beliefs and social status.
The Trump administration is not just reforming the US research system – it is trying to remake it.
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration…
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that…
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human…
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture,…
The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the…
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.
Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new…
A century-old French archaeological scandal was sensationalized in the press at the time – but responsible scientists…
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped…
Workplace productivity and educational challenges get the headlines, but it turns out that ChatGPT and its ilk are more…
3D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials…