Robotics

This Nearly 50-Foot Snake Was One of the Largest to Sli...

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigant...

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. ...

“A mass bleaching event is, by definition, a mass mortality event,” a leading co...

What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able t...

Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn

Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but...

SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sa...

Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to...

Spiderlike Mars Robot Might One Day Crawl through Unexp...

This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places whe...

A Dengue Fever Outbreak Is Setting Records in the Americas

At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South...

Milky Way's 'Sleeping Giant' Black Hole Lurks Shockingl...

A black hole weighing as much as 33 suns lurks a mere 2,000 light-years away fro...

How Jeff Koons’s Lunar Artwork Could Outlast All of Hum...

How long can humanity’s artifacts endure on the lunar surface? A new installatio...

NASA’s Artemis Astronauts Will Help Grow Crops on the M...

When astronauts return to the moon later this decade, they’ll bring along scienc...

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent

Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and publi...

The Evolution of a Big, Ugly Cry

Uncontrollable sobbing is uniquely human, and it may be our emotions running out...

AI Can Transform the Classroom Just Like the Calculator

AI can better education, not threaten it, if we learn some lessons from the adop...

Overconfidence Can Blindside Science and Society Alike....

The tale of how the "backfire effect" ultimately, itself, backfired, and the "pr...

Walks in Green Parks Mean Stronger Immune Systems and B...

Contact with nature improves physical and mental health, but greenery is not eas...

How a New AI Model Helps Volcanic History Rise from the...

Volcano detectives use artificial intelligence to sleuth out ancient secrets in ...

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