New developments for achieving structural coloring through plasma irradiation of graphite can reduce the reliance upon harmful color dyes. Colors…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sacrificial dilemmas are popular among philosophers. Should you divert a train from five people strapped to…
An artist’s illustration of what Patagorhynchus pascuali probably looked like in life. (Image credit: Courtesy of Fernando Novas)Around 70 million…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Another round of powerful atmospheric rivers is hitting California, following storms in January and February 2023…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Amsterdam have conducted a…
Many small businesses fear that higher minimum wages will force them to lose profits or cut jobs. But new research…
Computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with biologists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, recently announced…
In better times, the U.S. has, with some humility, owned up to its failures. Commissions have investigated tragedies such as…
It’s not every day that snow closes roads near southern California’s city of Santa Barbara or that flakes fall on…
An ancient oak tree with heart rotRichard Wright I am in a forest 35 kilometres west of London, meeting someone…
Cosmic Tumbles, Quantum Leaps.CAMILLA SJODIN. American Physical Society You may have heard that the infamous Schrodinger’s cat is simultaneously dead…
IT SOUNDS too good to be true: a medical test that can detect diseases you may develop decades from now.…
Only a few fossil fragments of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum have so far been found, such as this lower jaw. Credit: Paul…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Jeffrey Schlegelmilch is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate…
As the story of the Norfolk Southern chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, continues to unfold, we are learning how…
Smart voice assistants are a popular way for people to get quick answers or play their favorite music. That same…
Update: The US military has now released a video showing some of the incident. Russian fighter jet has hit a…
Think of bringing a pot of water to the boil: As the temperature reaches the boiling point, bubbles form in…
A beautiful and ghostly “butterfly” has launched from the sun, unfurling its ethereal, gossamer wings in two expanding arcs of…
A new ‘outside-the-box’ method of teaching artificial intelligence (AI) models to make decisions could provide hope for finding new therapeutic…
Occurrence of interpersonal mistreatment or incivility in the workplace over the prior 12 months presented by (a) gender, (b) race…
A ConocoPhillips drill site in the National Petroleum Reserve in AlaskaConocoPhillips On 13 March, the US government approved an $8…
Electric space propulsion systems use energized atoms to generate thrust. The high-speed beams of ions bump against the graphite surfaces…
Neutrinos are one of the most abundant particles in our universe, but they are notoriously difficult to detect and study:…
Percentage of each state’s residents that were also born in that state: Data vs. model with endogenous migration. Notes: The…
An equatorial skymap of all 1975 YSE DR1 transients as of 2021 December 20, each marked as a circle with…
More than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires in 2010-2020 than in the previous…
In an extremely rare case, doctors surgically removed a fetus from the brain of a 1-year-old child. Doctors found the…
Recyclable materials collectors at work in Brazil. Credit: Jannsen Santana, Daiane Scaraboto and Flavia Cardoso When Luiz Inácio Lula da…
Keeping indoor spaces comfortable takes a lot of power. About half the energy Americans use in their homes goes toward…