Robotics

This Biophysicist 'Sun Queen' Harnessed Solar Power

Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes illuminated the field ...

U.K. Becomes First Country to Approve a CRISPR Disease ...

A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell dis...

What the U.S.-China Agreement Means for Greenhouse Gas ...

The two nations announced limited steps to address climate change. But even a mo...

Climate Change is Disrupting Animals' Brains. Here's How

Shifting temperatures disrupt the cues animals rely on to navigate their environ...

Seals Show Scientists an Unknown Antarctic Canyon

Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glaci...

Mapping the 'Unknome' May Reveal Critical Genes Scienti...

Geneticists don’t know what most human genes do. A new research tool may help

Behind the Scenes at a U.S. Factory Building New Nuclea...

The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

Unions Bring a Surprising Side Effect--Higher Vaccinati...

Unions are good medicine, spurring vaccinations in their wider communities while...

Robotics 'Revives' a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish f...

Simple Formula Makes Prime Numbers Easy, but a Million-...

A generator equation can spit out many prime numbers, but it leaves important ma...

How Does Your Brain Remember and Retrieve Words?

Here's a look at how the brain uses its mental dictionary to remember and retrie...

U.S. and China Reach New Climate Agreement

China and the U.S. agreed to new greenhouse gas reduction commitments ahead of u...

The Worst Wildfires Are Started by People. Here's How

From stray bullets to power companies, humans spark almost all of California’s w...

The Ivy League Gets Attention, but Public Universities ...

Media attention to Ivy League schools distracts from the much more important—and...

Who Would Take the Brunt of an Attack on U.S. Nuclear M...

These fallout maps show the toll of a potential nuclear attack on missile silos ...

To Treat Overdose Patients Now, Hospitals Must Test for...

Most hospitals typically test people for drugs that drove overdoses 15 to 20 yea...

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