Robotics

Cleaning up the Poop-Polluted Seine for the Paris Olympics

The Seine will be the stage for the Paris 2024 Olympics’ Opening Ceremony—and fo...

What’s the Secret behind Ozempic’s Sweeping Health Bene...

Ozempic, Wegovy and other GLP-1 drugs are being investigated as treatments for m...

U.S. Gulf States Risk ‘Knock-Out Blow’ from Successive ...

Repeated extreme weather events in states along the Gulf of Mexico such as Louis...

The Psychological Effects of the Trump Assassination At...

Political violence has a different effect on people today than it did in the pas...

Blasting Virtual Aliens Could Help Dyslexic Kids Parse ...

Children at risk of dyslexia who played Space Invaders Extreme 2 showed improvem...

Astronauts Would Need an Unusual Pot to Boil Food in Space

Astronauts still survive on freeze-dried meals. Could better food, aided by cook...

Puerto Rico Files $1-Billion Climate Lawsuit against Oi...

Puerto Rico is suing fossil fuel companies over climate damages, saying that the...

The Fermi Paradox May Have a Very Simple Explanation

We can and should look harder for evidence of alien visitors to our solar system

After Falcon 9 Rocket Anomaly, SpaceX Seeks Rapid Retur...

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to determine...

Meet the Tornado Chasers and Scientists Hunting Real 'T...

Chasers will always be a vital part of tornado detection efforts, but now drones...

ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots ...

In Case Bird Flu Becomes a Pandemic, Countries Are Prep...

Virologists say that the bird flu strain that is infecting cattle in the U.S. is...

These Animals are Physics Whizzes

How falling cats, slithering snakes, burrowing prairie dogs and more exploit the...

Geoengineering the Climate Could Harm the Planet, U.N. ...

A new U.N. Environment Program report focuses on geoengineering’s potential dang...

How Venus’ Quasi-Moon Zoozve Got Its Name

Radiolab host Latif Nasser found and named a mysterious quasi-moon of Venus. Now...

How Twisters Brought the Science of Storm Chasing to th...

Sean Waugh, a professional storm chaser and meteorologist, talks about his role ...

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