With no identifiable body parts, it's hard to know how these fossilized creatures lived. A new approach models how the…
Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money –…
Fifty years after the first ATM went into service, the main problem – identifying authorized users – remains the same.…
Cracking down on extremism online won’t solve the problem of extremist violence, will inevitably censor speech that's…
BCI devices that read minds and act on intentions can change lives for the better. But they could also be put to nefarious…
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades,…
This antivirus software protects health, not computers. Researchers are beginning to combat deadly infections using computer-generated…
The physical world is racially segregated as a result of structural racism. A researcher examines whether similar problems…
It's a new constitutional question for the internet age: Should the president be allowed to block someone on Twitter?
British Prime Minister Theresa May called for an international cooperative effort to drive terrorists off the internet.…
The Trump administration's proposed budget suggests it will continue to spend federal dollars on expanding broadband…
The true radiation risk from commercial flying has nothing to do with security scans. A radiation expert explains how much…
Pittsburgh's post-industrial economic resurgence is promising, a historian of the region writes, but there's a reason…
Feel like something will be easy to remember? Your prediction may be influenced by how clearly the information was presented…
If we're ever to have flexible smartphones and mass-produced e-paper, we'll need to invent a new material – one…
Both psychologists and neuroscientists are interested in how working memory holds on to items over brief intervals – and…
These ripples in the very fabric of the universe were hypothesized by Einstein a century ago. Now scientists have detected…
A new research paper reports dangerous side effects in CRISPR-edited mice. Some scientists are pushing back, placing blame…
With college and professional leagues, legions of fans who play at home and millions of advertising and sponsorship dollars,…
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices…