The promise of abundant, clean energy powered by nuclear fusion is one big step closer thanks to a new experiment. The results…
There is a best time to take your medications, but your doctor may not know when that is. Researchers are still figuring…
The app best known for kids sharing video clips of themselves singing and dancing has become a powerful tool for activists…
From picking the tree to getting it home to setting it up, the choices you make can help it stay fresher – and safer –…
China has completed construction of the Tiangong space station, and science projects are now underway. The station is an…
Lovelace was a prodigious math talent who learned from the giants of her time, but her linguistic and creative abilities…
Food allergies have been linked to behavioral and mood disorders, including depression, anxiety and ADHD.
Toilets eject aerosol droplets that may carry disease-causing pathogens. Learning about how these particles move could help…
A medical myth persists that the B vitamin thiamine is a systemic insect repellent that wards off mosquitoes when taken…
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties…
Pictures and sound, flying through the air to a box in your house? Back in the 1940s, it seemed like a miracle.
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph…
The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors…
From warfare to entertainment and VR, brain-computer interface development has extended beyond prosthetics for patients…
A wealth of research on social media shows that COVID-19 misinformation is damaging to public health.
A German town needed to relocate a medieval graveyard to build a parking garage. A positive side effect: scientists got…
A scientist who led one of the first projects to map the Hawaiian Islands’ deep volcanic plumbing explains what’s going…
Genetic conflict may play a role in pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia and gestational diabetes, as well as developmental…
Neuroscientists know that pregnant mothers’ brains change in ways that appear to help with caring for a baby. Now researchers…
Research shows storms that might have caused minimal damage a few decades ago are becoming stronger and more destructive…