Robotics

How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their st...

There Are 4,000 Species of Native Bees in the U.S.

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and...

The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is S...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely na...

Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blo...

Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to R...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first co...

Secretive Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery O...

A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in ...

Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property wi...

JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially h...

The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by...

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, w...

Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a D...

Beginning in the 1930s, the work—and eventually the life—of Andrea Evangelina Ro...

JWST’s Fourth Year of Amazing Science Faces Funding Woes

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced am...

Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future ...

The critically endangered Mexican wolf was mounting a comeback, thanks to a cons...

New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Fu...

A long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersiz...

Why Some People Follow Authoritarian Leaders—And The Ke...

To protect democracy and counteract the allure of authoritarianism, reduce peopl...

Groupthink Explains Defense Department’s Signal Chat Fi...

At the heart of the Trump administration’s Signal scandal lies the familiar psyc...

Why Aurora Physicists Are Excited about Fram2’s Private...

The commercial astronauts onboard SpaceX’s Fram2 mission are flying closer to Ea...

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