One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that…
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human…
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture,…
The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the…
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.
Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new…
A century-old French archaeological scandal was sensationalized in the press at the time – but responsible scientists…
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped…
Workplace productivity and educational challenges get the headlines, but it turns out that ChatGPT and its ilk are more…
3D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials…
US farmers grow over 1 billion pounds of pumpkin each year.
A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming.
This lens modeled on biological eyes could make it easier to give soft machines and bio-safe tools the ability to see.
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well…
While a recent executive order directed the Department of Commerce to elevate this office, budgetary actions threaten it.
Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been…
Astronauts generally can’t look out the window like you might in a car – a ‘virtual window’ could instead serve…
Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling and intuitive. But new research suggests some arguments…
Data analytics, putting safety out of bounds for competition, and collaboration among industry, labor and government are…
A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and…