Research, Space & Discovery
Cancer Alley Revisited: Massive Louisiana Medicaid Study Links Industrial Pollution to Childhood, Women's, and Reproductive Health Risks
The processes that capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it on the seabed are crucial for climate balance. However, assessing these mechanisms is often complicated because it requires measureme...
A world-first photonic time crystal can reshape light almost instantly, opening a path toward ultrafast optical technology. An international research team has created the first experimentally demonstr...
Ed Cara, GizmodoDentists might soon have an easier option on hand to treat the dreaded cavity.Researchers at the University of Michigan conducted a large-scale Phase III trial...
"Eclipsing Power" is a new FlashDocs special highlighting how billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shaping the global space race.
“How about that?”The post55 Years Ago, an Apollo 15 Astronaut Dropped a Hammer on the Moonappeared first onNautilus.
To turn abundant carbon dioxide into valuable fuel, we need a fast and efficient way to determine which catalysts work best over the longest time. AI models have the potential to help guide catalyst s...
A meteorite that blasted through a New Jersey roof carried a startling secret: evidence of ancient salty fluids and complex organic chemistry inside a primitive asteroid. A space rock that tore throug...
Andrew Paul, Pop SciHistory regularly reappears along the Danube River near the Serbian town of Prahovo, but it's likely never been more visible than this summer. As
A review led by the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has revealed that tiny ground-dwelling invertebrates are overlooked but important seed dispersers, challenging th...
Euclid’s expanding quasar census is revealing how enormous black holes emerged during the Universe’s infancy. More than 13 billion years ago, two brilliant objects blazed from galaxies that had barely...
Cameron English, ACSHRecently released diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal significant gaps between what senior scientists and officials said privately about COVID-19 origins early in the...
When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another. ...
Rice is the most-eaten food on the planet, and its discarded outer husk results in some 300 billion pounds of waste per year. FIU chemistry researcher Islam Ibrahim Hussein says the inedible castoffs ...
A research team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has successfully demonstrated an AI modeling approach that accurately and rapidly predicts how reacti...
3D bioprinting allows scientists to build custom tissue structures for medicine, but printing soft tissues like the human brain remains a major challenge. The strong pushing forces required to squeeze...
Nagoya UniversityWhat enables us to sustain effort toward goals, even when the task becomes increasingly difficult? A recent study by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan revealed the...
University of HelsinkiSnakes are highly modified lizards, with more than 4,000 living species today. The origin of snakes has long been one of evolutionary biology's most debated questions....
McGill UniversityA person's posture appears to affect their emotions and decision-making ability more than they realize, according to new research from McGill University. In a recent study,...
EurekAlert!Along the three coasts of the contiguous United States, a silent race unfolds. Fueled by climate change, sea levels rise faster than at any time in recent geologic history....