Research, Space & Discovery
A few years ago, I drove with an old friend from Togo, West Africa, towards the country's last remaining large protected area, Fazao-Malfakassa National Park. Our destination was the Hotel Fazao, wher...
Karen Breslau, Stanford Longevity MagDavid Rehkopf's fascination with longevity began with human cells. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked alongside Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn...
Researchers at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new model of artificial intelligence governance inspired by the teachings of ...
Liz Seegert, Stanford Longevity MagazineFor 31 years, Anita Robinson worked in international tech consulting, helping banks and retailers solve complex business problems. She expected to...
A signal that appears to show ions moving inside a battery may, in fact, be an illusion caused by an uneven surface. A KAIST research team has identified the origin of this type of artifact, which can...
Isha Ishtiaq, Live SciencePeople who are the exact same chronological age can undergo very different molecular changes as they grow older, a new study finds."Molecular aging is...
Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 Allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on ...
One-third of young scientists who had been planning careers in academic research changed their minds in the spring of 2025, according to a new survey. Fewer expected to remain in higher education or w...
Jeff Shainline, iaiThe universe seems to be fine-tuned for life. Were nature's constants even slightly different, life wouldn't exist. To explain this, scientists reach for bizarre ideas,...
Mike Mariani, NoemaWe've long been ensorcelled by the passage of time. Puckered leaves fluttering from the spidery arms of barren trees. Grains of sand tumbling through the delicate neck of...
Elizabeth Howell, Scientific AmericanForget boot prints on the moon or human missions to Mars—the real 21st-century space race is shaping up to be more about who can launch the most...
Michelle Spear, The ConvYou've just finished eating lunch and you're back at your desk, ready to dive into the rest of the day's work. Yet by 3pm, you find your eyes starting to droop....
Michael Aaron Cody, RealClearScienceThe future trade between human cognition and the convenience of increasingly capable tools is becoming a common topic,...
Bianca Nogrady, Science FocusIt happens when we're overheated, stressed, exercising, anxious or under pressure… or even when we're perfectly relaxed but it happens to be humid...
Mihai Andrei, ZME SciAncient Egyptian artists created images meant to endure for eternity with decidedly earthly ingredients: boiled animal tissues, eggs, grains and the remnants of...
Dan Falk, UndarkStereotypes die hard. If we're asked to picture a scientist at work, it's tempting to reach for an old stand-by: the astronomer at the eyepiece of an enormous telescope, or...
Douglas Fox, AnthropoceneWhen people imagine the front line of antibiotic resistance, they may see a hospital where antibiotics are overprescribed, or a feed lot where cattle are pumped...
Jose Yong, The ConvIt's difficult to imagine a song like Queen's 1975 Bohemian Rhapsody topping the charts today. Almost six minutes long, it moves through several radically different...
Sara Hashemi, Popular ScienceA lot of us like to start our days with a cup ofcoffee. Whether it's a...
Nicola Davis, The GuardianWhen Mercedes was told by her doctor that she could be prescribed GLP-1 weight loss jabs in 2024, she broke down. "[When] she said yes, I cried in her office. And...