Robotics

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into th...

From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’...

New research reveals how the brain separates speech int...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain s...

How do deep-sea fish see in dark water? This new study ...

Three species of Red Sea fish appear to rely on special “hybrid” retina cells to...

The largest-ever satellite of its kind just unfurled it...

BlueBird 6 features the biggest commercial communications array antenna ever dep...

What does it take to eat like an Olympian?

There’s more to Winter Olympians’ diets than calories—but for some, there are al...

FDA won’t consider a new mRNA vaccine for flu despite t...

The U.S.’s drug safety agency declined to review a next-gen flu vaccine that use...

This ancient South American kingdom ran on bird poop

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird...

Hair extensions may contain chemicals linked to cancer ...

A new study finds a variety hair extensions—from natural to synthetic—contain ch...

FDA won’t consider a new mRNA vaccine for flu, despite ...

America’s drug safety agency declined to review a next-gen flu vaccine that uses...

How ‘effectively zero-knowledge’ proofs could transform...

A new tool expands the ways people can prove they’ve solved a problem without re...

Inside the Russian dialect coaching behind Heated Rivalry

How a Russian dialect coach helped Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie master cha...

Top medical groups join forces to review vaccine scienc...

The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safe...

Earth’s core may contain 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth...

Scientists may have discovered a pulsar at the Milky Wa...

If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed, it could enab...

What came before the big bang?

Physicists cannot access anything that existed before the start of time and spac...

The quirky geology behind Olympic curling stones

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland ...

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