Robotics

Government Shutdown Looms over Scientists

A government shutdown would disrupt biomedical research and clinical trials as f...

Government Shutdown Could Delay Climate Action

EPA rules on clean cars, power plants and methane could face delays if there is ...

Controversy Surrounds Blockbuster Superconductivity Claim

Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold...

Eaten, Crushed or Starved; Male Tarantulas Trade Their ...

After eight years maturing in a burrow, male tarantulas venture out to mate, the...

Stop Trying to 'Find' Your Passion--There's a Better Wa...

Recognizing that interests are malleable and can be developed can make us more r...

What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us

In Who Wrote This? linguist Naomi S. Baron discusses how artificial intelligence...

EPA's Critics Recycle Nonsense about Cost to Cut Pollution

For decades industry has claimed that curbing pollution costs too much, but the ...

Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses

An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops mul...

How to See the 'Ring of Fire' Annular Solar Eclipse of ...

This annular solar eclipse will only reveal its full glory to a select few, but ...

Supermassive Black Hole Feeding Frenzies May Explain Bl...

A new simulation shows black holes ripping apart and consuming their accretion d...

What's a Qubit? 3 Ways Scientists Build Quantum Computers

Scientists are trying to master the basic computing element known as a qubit to ...

Congressional Budget Turmoil Stops FEMA from Doling out...

Puerto Rico will be hit hardest by spending restrictions set by FEMA as disaster...

Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow ...

Sarah Loguen Fraser was the daughter of abolitionists and one of the first Afric...

Classifying Heat Waves Will Help People Better Understa...

Climate change is making heat waves stronger and longer. Naming and ranking them...

Precision Medicine Has Been Overhyped

A new book argues that genomics is overshadowing environmental and social soluti...

How Family Trauma Perpetuates Authoritarian Societies

Pioneering scholar Riane Eisler describes her lifelong quest to understand why w...

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