Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the…
Policymakers are focusing on restricting teens’ access to social media, but this approach risks cutting them off from…
Pyrolysis breaks down plastic and generates potentially useful oil − but it’s not a silver bullet for the planet.
Participants in a study were willing to spend just as much time and money on an AI-generated story as one they were told…
Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But researchers…
By combining ultrasound with a concept called nonlinear acoustics, you can create sound that stays silent until it reaches…
A social scientist tracking adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors over time was uniquely positioned to document changes in…
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and…
Every field has its own standard for what data gets recorded for specimens archived in a museum collection, which can make…
Two social psychologists explain the ways unconscious biases influence how people think and can fuel discrimination against…
When a spacecraft is too far from the Sun to use solar panels, it needs a different reliable source of power.
US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question:…
3D printing in outer space and on alien planets comes with otherworldly challenges.
The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work…
Thousands of chemicals in industry haven’t been thoroughly tested for their safety and toxicity. Researchers are working…
Without public health surveillance, officials trying to tackle outbreaks, identify threats and evaluate treatments are working…
Figuring out how to make spacecraft more accessible to astronauts with physical disabilities can also make them safer for…
Trump’s DEI-related executive orders may affect early career scientists and researchers who study representation in science,…
Mathematicians once turned up their noses at imaginary numbers. But complex analysis actually simplifies math and physics.
A physicist explains that the short answer is both … and neither.