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Software engineers and astronomers collaborated to look at data from the...
NASA teamed up with Google AI to find two new extrasolar planets, using machine learning to create an artificial neural network to look for weak signals buried in astrophysical data. Software...
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Beginning in January, the world’s largest importer of recycled goods will no...
Credit: China Photo via Getty ImagesAfter years as the world’s biggest destination for recycled goods, China is getting sick of your scrap. China imported about 2 million metric tons of aluminum, 10...
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An analysis of Medicare and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
Credit: Agron Dragaj via Getty ImagesIt’s a popular theory: When it rains, a person’s joints are more likely to become sore or their back to begin aching. “I think most doctors have heard this from a...
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Experiments with chimpanzees and 4 to 6-year-old children show that members...
Credit: Mith Huang, Flickr (left) and Pelican, Flickr (right)When misfortune befalls another, humans and other animals often empathize and show concern for the suffering individual. If an individual...
View ArticleA Canadian doctor's study suggests that there may be an evolutionary basis...
Look, men are the worst. This is no secret. It's been clear for several centuries running that a particular gender causes a lot more trouble on this planet than the other. And if all the caveman...
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In experiments on mice, Stanford University researchers found a “moment of...
Credit: Jupiterimages via Getty ImagesWhat if it were possible to stop anyone from overeating, from injecting heroine, or from drinking too much? Researchers from Stanford University say that a...
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Physicists at the City University of New York have developed a material...
Credit: Ella Maru StudioHow's this for a science fiction premise: Scientists develop an ultralight material thinner than aluminum foil that morphs instantly into diamond hardness when struck by a...
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Astronomers studying 1I/2017 U1 ’Oumuamua, the first known interstellar...
Credit: European Southern ObservatoryThe first known interstellar object to visit from the deep beyond entered our solar system at a speed of about 15.8 miles a second. It doesn’t have an icy comet’s...
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BioViva and its controversial CEO Liz Parrish want to bring experimental gene...
Credit: MedicalRF.com via Getty ImagesGene therapy is one of those biomedical breakthroughs that has promised to cure Alzheimer’s, cancer, and other disorders for decades. Armed with gene-editing...
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The conclusion, made by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
Credit: Jeff MillerHow common is life in the universe? This is a hard question for scientists to answer definitively, since we only have one data point: Earth. But a new study published in the...
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For most people, bad breath is a temporary nuisance, but some individuals...
Credit: Jayesh via Getty ImagesAbout 90 percent of all bad breath cases originate in the mouth. Triggers could be as innocuous as consumption of a pizza covered in garlic or biting into a savory...
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Life expectancy in the United States declined for the second year in a row...
Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesFor the first time in a half a century, life expectancy in the United States declined for the second year in a row — and America’s opioid epidemic is to blame. A...
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The Hermit Kingdom’s recent successes in missile testing are fueling the...
Credit: BoeingNorth Korea has dramatically ramped up its missile program in recent months, testing not just more missiles than ever before but also a widening variety of designs. The Hermit Kingdom...
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A computer-based analysis of the world’s folk music found that musical...
Credit: Bashar Amin Shglila, Getty Images“There's only one song,” Keith Richards, legendary songwriter, guitarist, and bon vivant of the Rolling Stones, once quipped. “Adam and Eve wrote it; the rest...
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Scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of water, and...
Credit: mer Fuat Eryener/EyeEm via Getty ImagesScientists have known for years that water behaves weirdly. Other liquids like alcohol and oil grow heavier as they’re compressed. But water becomes...
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California researchers engineered cells from mice and humans to fold, coil,...
Credit: Alex HughesScientists have replicated some of the processes that cause cells to fold, coil, and ripple as they become flesh. Publishing their findings recently in the journal Developmental...
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The newly sequenced genome of an Alaskan infant who lived just after the last...
Credit: Eric S. Carlson in collaboration with Ben PotterWhen scientists recently sequenced the genome of a six-week-old infant girl who lived 11,500 years ago at an Alaskan site now called Upward Sun...
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New data on the most mysterious star in the sky, KIC 8462852, suggests its...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechIn what might be regarded as something of a space bummer, scientists have concluded that the odd stellar phenomenon known as Tabby's Star is not evidence of an orbiting alien...
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Observed concentrations of methane in the atmosphere didn’t equal...
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SVSA better calculation of forest fires will help scientists better understand just how much methane is contributing to climate change. Methane levels have shot up since 2006, but...
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Astronauts can lose 2 percent of their bone mass each month, and experiments...
Credit: Launchpad MedicalA new experiment on the International Space Station is testing an innovative “bone glue” that might help reverse osteoporosis, the crippling bone disease that affects over 200...
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