Research, Space & Discovery
Imagine stepping into a machine that can make you feel like you’re flying a spacecraft, piloting a next generation air taxi, or landing on the Moon, all without leaving the ground. NASA’s Vertical Mot...
More than 100,000 people are awaiting an organ transplant in the United States, with a new candidate added to the list every 10 minutes. Even if the transplant is carried out successfully, recipients ...
Kennedy Targets the GRAS Loophole as MAHA's Political Test Gets Bigger
OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society – it's time to take back control of the narrative
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The decades-old scientific quest to create brand-new proteins has been turbocharged in the era of artificial intelligence.
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In 2005, a research team led by University of Zurich economics professor Ernst Fehr published a study in the journal Nature that provided evidence for the first time that intranasally administered oxy...
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Food and pharmaceutical manufacturers increasingly seek lipids with carefully controlled fatty-acid compositions. However, natural oils usually contain mixtures of closely related fatty acids, and con...
Students who attended public school pre-K performed better academically through high school than those in family-based child care, according to new research from Florida International University.
Whether it's neurons responding to electrical signals or plants stretching toward light, nature is filled with examples of biological materials that respond to their environment. Now, researchers want...
Feedback is a little nonplussed by an experiment that involved wearing (or not wearing) compressing shapewear, and then playing cards
My family tree doubles at every past ancestor generation and continues branching back into the past. At what point does it reduce in size to reflect the size of the population? (continued) Robert Cy J...
What changes will occur on Earth as the moon moves further away from us? (continued) Eric Kvaalen Les Essarts-le-Roi, France The moon moves away as it receives angular momentum around the Earth-moon c...
Readers dig into whether it’s best to have fewer big cubes or lots of small ones – and offer up their services to test it out
The Killings at Parrish Station is a terrifying cosmic horror six-parter, which starts back in 1987 when two detectives find mangled bodies at an outback radio research station. TV columnist Bethan Ac...
Tim Winton's Juice gave Alison Flood the appetite for more post-apocalyptic science fiction. Returning to Cormac McCarthy's scorched landscape was tough – but worth it
Modern biomedicine increasingly relies on enormous amounts of image data. Although computers can do part of the analysis work, biologists often still need to look through the images themselves. This t...
For more than two decades, the quasar PHL 1811 has been considered the prototype of a rare class of "intrinsically X-ray weak" quasars, thought to produce unusually little X-ray radiation. But in 2024...