Robotics

How Being Wobbly Gives Earth and Possibly Other Planets...

Thousand of exoplanets have been discovered over the past decades, and understan...

Here's What I Learned as the U.S. Government's UFO Hunter

A forthcoming investigational report from an office of the Pentagon has found no...

Israel's War in Gaza Is Creating Enormous Hidden Health...

A toxic mix of dust, ash and other material from 15 million tons of rubble now b...

This Nearby Brown Dwarf May Have Auroras--And a Moon, Too

Glowing methane on a brown dwarf dozens of light-years from Earth may signal the...

Ocean Trawling May Release Locked-Away Carbon

Some scientists say the controversial fishing practice of ocean trawling stirs u...

At Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland and Beyond, Efforts to...

Iceland, Hawaii and Italy have all tried to control lava to save cities in the p...

Africans Discovered Dinosaur Fossils Long before the Te...

Sometime between C.E. 1100 and 1700, a Massospondylus dinosaur bone was found an...

NASA's Moon Program Faces Delays. Its Ambition Remains ...

If successful, the Artemis program promises to revolutionize travel to other cel...

Math Explains Why Your Friends Are More Popular Than You

The inspection paradox makes sense of social networks, long train wait times and...

Can this AI Tool Predict Your Death? Maybe, But Don't P...

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digit...

Why 2024's Total Solar Eclipse Will Be So Special

The last time North Americans caught a total solar eclipse, the sun was in a lul...

Meet ReTro, the First Cloned Rhesus Monkey to Reach Adu...

A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta has led to the fir...

Children Anticipate What Others Want, But Great Apes Don't

New cross-species research suggests a theory of mind is one thing that sets huma...

Cute Little Tardigrades Are Basically Indestructible, a...

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive a host of conditions that a...

AI Matches the Abilities of the Best Math Olympians

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI progr...

Volcano That Blasted Seawater into the Stratosphere May...

The Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano erupted in January 2022 with the force of ...

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