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Do we really need science? On its surface it seems like a silly question, but you might be surprised how often the typical scientist or science communicator ...
MIT's Media Lab, Harvard, Stanford, hospitals—they all take money from donors. Whether it's to truly help the world, or merely burnish a reputation, the money ...
GeekWire's Alan Boyle reports on a $90 million science project with a diplomatic twist in Jordan, one of the stops on this summer's Middle East science tour.
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Last week, researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence demonstrated in a new paper that an AI they'd designed could ace an eighth-grade ...
China's evolution into a scientific superpower has altered the politics behind the global movement of scientific talent. Once seen as a benign step in fostering ...
There is controversy regarding how widespread animal play behavior is and what its evolutionary function might be. Reinhold et al. demonstrated that rats can ...
My last column explored theoretical pluralism, the philosophical stance that some scientific questions, rather than having a single solution, might generate many ...
Physicist William Happer failed to win backing for high-level critique of climate findings.
Don't ask why—you need to escape, stat. So how do you make a break without breaking every bone? We asked Rhett Allain, an associate professor of physics ...
When birds migrate, timing is everything. Fly too late, and they miss the peak season for finding good food, a good mate, or a good nest site. But that's just what ...
The current expansion rate of the Universe is parametrized by the Hubble constant, H0. Different methods of measuring H0 produce results that disagree with ...
Sunrise and sunset chasers discovered something odd this summer: In rural Colorado and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, Earth's daily light shows were ...
When PLOS ONE debuted in 2006, its founders declared it would transform scientific publishing. It was the first multidisciplinary, large-volume, open-access ...
Jeff Glorfeld ponders the very idea of Nessie, Bigfoot and other cryptids.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The biocontainment unit that was used to treat several people with the Ebola virus in 2014 will be the focus of the next Omaha Science ...
Community science brings a DIY sensibility to a range of research areas, providing a collegial atmosphere of collaboration and support.
In 1998, Gustavo Ayala, a young pathologist, landed at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ready to start to see patients. But his state medical license ...
This book presents an entertaining explanation and analysis of the science portrayed in the fictional television series, Breaking Bad, from bottle-exploding ...
Researchers are building a picture of palorchestids, which had tapir-like skulls and large scimitar-like claws.
ANTARCTICA scientists captured evidence of 'human intruders' after breaking the ice around the frozen desert and lowering a camera.
Controlling the flow of light in a robust and flexible manner will be critical for the development of the next generation of photonic integrated devices. Exploiting ...
Scientists say Milky Way's Sagittarius A* has been more active in recent months.
Rats can be taught to play hide and seek — and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found.
Cancer drug developers may be missing their molecular targets—and never knowing it. Many recent drugs take aim at specific cell proteins that drive the growth ...
For most of human history, bacterial pathogens have been a major cause of disease and mortality. The development of antibiotics provided a simple and ...
Mountains contribute disproportionately to the terrestrial biodiversity of Earth, especially in the tropics, where they host hotspots of extraordinary and puzzling ...
SILVER SPRING, Md. — On Friday morning in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., government scientists in khakis and sensible shoes bustled to work — beneath ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., announced today that it will stop conducting or funding studies on mammals by 2035.
Cancer drug developers may be missing their molecular targets—and never knowing it. Many recent drugs take aim at specific cell proteins that drive the growth ...
Two teams of astronomers have for the first time detected water vapor around a small planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star, and they've even ...
Ancient North American hunter-gatherers had direct contacts with people living halfway across the continent, researchers say. A ceremonial copper object and ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to sharply reduce its use of animals in toxicity tests. Many scientists and environmentalists say the ...
Game economies are a delicate thing. It doesn't take much to break them. We recently held a breakfast to address how to keep developers and players happy.
Scientists have long assumed there was only one species of electric eel. (After all, who needs more?) But when a team of researchers examined more than 100 ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is trying to sharply reduce its use of animals in toxicity tests. Many scientists and environmentalists say the ...
A MIT economist's study shows that life sciences change course after star scientists die during their active careers.
Mariya Gabriel, a conservative politician from Bulgaria, is slated to become the next European research chief—although her job title, unlike that of her ...
Modern machines, which are composed of force-generating motors, force sensors, and load-bearing structures, enabled the industrial revolution and are ...
After 8 hours of contentious discussion, an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today endorsed the effectiveness of a ...
Forget the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Geologists have reconstructed, time slice by time slice, a nearly quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a vanished ...
Efforts to contact India's Chandrayaan-2 moon lander continued this week. The spacecraft had fallen silent on 7 September, moments before its intended ...
The Museum of Life and Science will open its newest and long-awaited outdoor exhibit to the general public this week, and here's a pro tip if you go: Bring a ...
First Direct Arena, Leeds Universal: Adventures in Space and Time is a jaw-dropping reminder that human life is both irrelevant and hugely precious.
Graphene nanostructures that would result from folding or rolling graphene monolayers or bilayers have been predicted to have a number of interesting ...
Spectroscopy is a ubiquitous characterization tool spanning most scientific and many industrial disciplines. Most handheld spectrometers are based on tabletop ...
Jagged streaks of lightning ripping across the sky are common to summer storms all over the world—that's the season when the most strikes occur. But the ...
An object that seems to be a comet from around another star is speeding through the solar system. This comet, dubbed C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), marks the second ...
Rub a balloon on your head, and your hair will stand on end. Nearly everyone has done it, or at least seen it. But even though static electricity was first observed ...
Biohacking is the fastest track to upgrading yourself by optimizing your performance through the use of science and advanced technology. Are you ready to ...
Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 to 8000 years ago. Through a synthetic collaboration with archaeologists around the ...
For the City Times. STEVENS POINT – Lee Dugatkin, a biology professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville, will give two ...
Our changing climate is a threat to corals, causing disfiguring bleaching and mortality to reefs that once teemed with life. Shlesinger and Loya alert us to an ...
Studies have indicated that same-sex orientation and behavior has a genetic basis and runs in families, yet specific genetic variants have not been isolated (1).
The popular way to keep warm outdoors owes a debt to World War II–era clothing science. An Object Lesson.
By comparing genetic information from extant humans worldwide, researchers have painted a broadstrokes picture of human prehistory. However, these data ...
In 1998, astronomers discovered an astonishing fact: Some antigravitational force was speeding up the expansion of the universe. Two decades later, this “dark ...
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves along their magnetic poles, seen as regular pulses if the beam points toward Earth. Desvignes ...
This fall's Science in Our Valley seminar series schedule has been announced and the first seminar takes place Wednesday, September 25 with a scientist that ...
Aside from Disney's Sebastian and Tamatoa, crabs aren't known for their acoustic skills. The ghost crab may change that. The beach-dwelling crustacean can ...
A major budget crisis at Brazil's leading science funding agency could disrupt the lives of thousands of students and early-career scientists. In September, the ...
Indigenous peoples have been observing the world for thousands of years, but underrepresented in the sciences. How can we make science more inclusive?
You might think you already know black – even super-black Vantablack, previously the blackest material known to science – but researchers just came up with a ...
Here's a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning ...
Roger W. Stephenson: We need to act now to tackle the climate crisis instead of continuing to kick the problem to the next generation.
From June to August 2018, the eruption of Kīlauea volcano triggered a diatom-dominated phytoplankton bloom. Wilson et al. set sail to sample the plume, ...
In 2007, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates stunned many scientists when, at a meeting in Seattle, Washington, they called for the worldwide eradication of ...
Government's assurances that there are no health problems are misleading, say food policy experts.
A major new Radio 4 series breaks down the barriers between art and science.
David Littleproud's comments to parliament entirely at odds with earlier statement to Guardian Australia.
The miraculously preserved 2000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient texts of invaluable historical significance, were discovered in the mid-20th century in the ...
Very young infants can produce some sweat and tears, but these abilities do not fully develop until several weeks after birth.
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modification regulates various cellular functions. Liu et al. found that host cells impair RNA m6A demethylase activity after viral ...
Holden Thorp, a chemist who held top leadership positions at two major U.S. research universities, was named today as the next editor-in-chief of the Science ...
How is NASA preparing astronauts for high-stress living on the moon? Turns out the answer is by living in undersea bases just off the coast of Florida in a lab ...
Polio could come back, Science News, September 13, 1969 —. Only eight cases of paralytic polio have been reported in the entire United States so far in 1969.
Scientists in China have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to treat a patient with HIV, but it didn't cure the patient, according to a new study. The work ...
By comparing fossils and CT scans, researchers say they have reconstructed the skull of the last common forebear of modern humans.
Computer programs have shown superiority over humans in two-player games such as chess, Go, and heads-up, no-limit Texas hold'em poker. However, poker ...
Look at anything made from trees—a ream of paper, a cardboard box, lumber—and it's probably stamped with the logo of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) ...
Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), such as soda and bottled iced tea, are an increasingly popular approach to reducing obesity, diabetes, and other ...
A new device is an anti-solar panel, harvesting energy from the cold night sky. By harnessing the temperature difference between Earth and outer space, ...
Physicists have 'heard' the ringing of an infant black hole for the first time, and found that the pattern of this ringing does, in fact, predict the black hole's mass and ...
Superhard materials can slice, drill and polish other objects. Now, science is opening the door to the development of new materials with these seductive ...
Faced with global warming, rising sea levels, and the climate-related extremes they intensify, the question is no longer whether some communities will ...
It's the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, ...
DNA from Harappan suggests South Asians can trace their ancestry to Indus Valley Civilization.
ASTRONOMERS around the world were left scrambling for answers after an emergency warning was triggered over a black hole, a documentary revealed.
The discrepancy between the proton size deduced from the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen and the average, textbook value based on regular (electronic) ...
A buzz that rocked the state all summer sent geologists on a labyrinthine chase—and unearthed new mysteries about how energy moves through land and air.
More than a million Americans have donated genetic information and medical data for research projects. But how that information gets used varies a lot, ...
The Cooper's Ferry archaeological site in western North America has provided evidence for the pattern and time course of the early peopling of the Americas.
Imagine a word processor that allowed you to change letters or words but balked when you tried to cut or rearrange whole paragraphs. Biologists have faced ...
We analyzed coastal sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin, California, for historical changes in microplastic deposition using a box core that spanned ...
How does the brain store information over a long period of time? Gonzalez et al. chronically implanted custom-built high-sensitivity microendoscopes and ...
The lost continent "Greater Adria" existed hundreds of millions of years ago after it broke off from Gondwana.
After recent criticism in the US and the UK, forensic science is now coming under attack in Australia. Several recent reports have detailed concerns that innocent ...
A cultural account of an Inuit man crafting a knife out of his own frozen feces was tested for scientific accuracy in a recent experiment. "Experimental replication ...
One of the most famous science research ships in history — the Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook on his first voyage around the world — is now ...