With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened…
AI systems reflect human values. However, the human values embedded in AI are skewed to the utilitarian and away from the…
Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and…
The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between…
Even though emeralds and rubies are very different colors, they both have the same secret ingredient in their atomic structure.
Elite athletes are known to be tough-minded. Research reveals openness is also a key personality trait, one that allows…
Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years. Recent research on fossil shark teeth has discovered an innovative…
Black doesn’t appear in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So why do we still see it?
Your physical environment, social life and lifestyle have as much an influence on your biology − and hence, how you process…
The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly…
Space isn’t lawless, but the agreements governing it don’t cover everything nations will have to grapple with as they…
Writing computer code is helpful for people in many disciplines, but learning to program is hard. Large language models…
Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human…
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing…
A machine learning expert breaks down where the money goes in building big AIs, and how DeepSeek found ways to do it far…
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical…
Just 2 layers of materials commonly used in biomedical labs can mimic the electrical properties of human skin.
A member of a grant review panel explains the ins and outs of applying for research funding – and the consequences of…
Control systems keep your house warm and your car’s speed constant, but they could also help address societal problems.
Raw water may not be as safe as it looks. Like raw milk, untreated water comes with dubious health claims and high risks.