Robotics

Meet LEV-2, a baseball-sized and absurdly cute moon robot

This tiny robot might look like a high-tech hamster ball, but it could hasten lu...

Obstetricians oppose CDC to recommend more shots for moms

In a first, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists released its o...

The U.S. stockpiles oil in huge underground salt cavern...

Salt, with its ability to seal liquid in, is uniquely suited to storing the nati...

See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch t...

Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of o...

Children’s zip codes change their brains, new study finds

Children living in areas with low socioeconomic opportunities have more tired an...

Tilly Edinger: The paleoneurologist saved by her science

Johanna Gabriela Ottilie “Tilly” Edinger dedicated her career to studying ancien...

Humans and AI race to ‘blow up’ math’s toughest equations

New results challenge AI’s promise for solving how fluids swirl—and suggest a mo...

El Niño is here and could tip Earth to a new record hot...

Scientists have been expecting El Niño to set in for quite a while now—and it’s ...

China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at one of Earth’s ...

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oa...

What AI-herding scientists can learn from watching ‘she...

Controlling a small group of “noisy” sheep holds hints for computer algorithms

The 2026 World Cup will bring the heat. Here's how to k...

Extreme heat poses a risk to players, spectators and workers—find out where the ...

The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here...

Cold fronts colliding with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico could cause d...

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries abou...

Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the...

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness ...

How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of d...

The ability to run “mental marathons” is a skill children can learn through simp...

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, a...

A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test develop...

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