IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation…
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed…
The people manning the guns are also at risk of injury from the force of the weapon.
Setting specific, hard-to-reach goals seems to help people maintain motivation, while preventing them from feeling as drained…
People young and old love the classic video game Tetris. A working knowledge of the spatial reasoning concepts underlying…
Essential fats found in fish and nuts are tied to many protective health benefits. Researchers found they may also slow…
There are an infinite number of paths an ice crystal can take before you touch it.
‘Loopy’ is a multicellular robot inspired by biology and designed to react to its environment without instructions on…
Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened…
Many children’s educational shows undergo pre-screening to make sure each episode delivers its intended message. Adult…
Satellite photography of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut shows block after block of destroyed buildings. Satellite radar provides…
Governments can exclude certain groups of people in policies and services not only by the type of data they collect but…
The Nobel Prize-winning Luria−Delbrück experiment showed that random mutations in bacteria can allow them to develop…
People who regularly engage in significant amounts of exercise, as endurance athletes do, may develop enlarged hearts. While…
Can astronauts spend prolonged time in close quarters millions of miles from Earth without killing each other?
What if plants in the area surrounding a nuclear reactor could act as radiation detectors, with the help of a drone?
‘Energetic’ materials are ones that readily ignite or detonate. The shapes of those materials have a big effect on how…
On a small, remote island in the Pacific Ocean, an unlikely predator feasts on the world’s largest albatross colony. Researchers…
Russia isn’t likely to put nuclear missiles in space, but their reported anti-satellite weapon is just as alarming. An…
Drones have dominated images of the war in Ukraine, but an expert on drone warfare casts doubt on many of the grand claims…