Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future?
The scientists behind a controversial new study were surprised by their own results. But they carefully did all they could…
No one then knew a virus caused the 1918 flu pandemic, much less that animals can be a reservoir for human illnesses. Now…
Women are underrepresented in academic science. New research finds the problem is even worse in terms of who authors high-profile…
More connected devices means more vulnerability to cyberattacks. Is there a cheap, easy and secure way to protect the internet…
Efforts to curb railroads' monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet…
If Mary Shelley wrote the book today, Victor would surely be a synthetic biologist. But those fiddling with living things…
Teens' brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age…
New research suggests that hints left in Creole languages can identify where the original speakers came from – even hundreds…
Gun control advocates want to shut down the National Rifle Association's online video channel, NRA TV. A scholar looks…
With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that…
A basketball computer program simulates millions of trajectories in search of the ideal shot.
Were foreign diplomats and tourists attacked with a 'sonic weapon' – or was it something else? Ultrasound researchers…
Smartphones are key elements of two-factor authentication processes. Weakening their security threatens people's digital…
Twenty years ago, a Texas court decided Winfrey hadn't defamed the state's cattle industry. At the time, local media…
Feb. 28 marks the 75th anniversary of Operation Gunnerside. A stealthy group of skiing commandos took out a crucial Nazi…
There's a common, popular and well-studied method to ensure new technologies are safe and effective for public use –…
Pharmaceutical companies focus on small molecules they've devised – and can easily patent. But nature's already…
Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there's little US research…
An ultra-safe industry has important experience that could help a vulnerable new industry improve its safety.