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The microbes in your apple will soon be able to identify the source down to the meter. Scientists from Harvard, MIT and Boston University have created...

Sep 4, 2020 - Researchers say human hibernation could be the key to exploring deep space, as well as extending the human lifespan

Academic Twitter has exploded with PNAS jokes after the hilariously-abbreviated journal published a nuclear economics take.

The Americas have been drifting apart from Europe and Africa at a rate of four centimeters a year, and a new study has revealed the dramatic processes at play.

Would over-40s benefits from working shorter hours?

CU Boulder researcher Pedro DiNezio emphasizes solving the problems of climate change in the here and now.

Language model (LM) agents are increasingly used as autonomous decision-makers which need to actively gather information to guide their decisions. A crucial...

Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time for science to end animal research altogether and replace it with effective alternatives?

Sep 27, 2025 - Strange glass scattered across southern Australia might be the calling card of an asteroid impact that melted the Earth’s surface.

Uranus has a name that lends itself to butt jokes. But it's also immensely important to scientists, who have mixed feelings on the juvenile humor.

A new study theorizes that black holes made of collapsed universes originate dark matter, and our own universe may look like a black hole to outsiders.

There will always be "wolf-criers" whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon - Demo Content

I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track... - Suzanne Cory quotes...

Nature's UFOs are even weirder and more mysterious than flying saucers.

Some scientists researching Antarctica believe an indomitable meltdown has begun. The New York Times reported on a recent expedition to confirm that.

Archaeologists found the almost seven-inch-long artifact over 20 years ago in a ditch near Vindolanda in England.

Jan 15, 2026 - China gold discoveries 2025: Fact-checking the Dadonggou, Kunlun, and Jiaodong deposits. Reviewing 1,444-tonne reserves and Hunan's mega lithium find.

Choosing what to have for dinner, it turns out, is a complex neurological exercise. But, according to researchers, it's one that can be influenced by a simple...

Scientists said Saturday they had identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a discovery one expert hailed as...

US science is worth fighting for, but so are the science projects and scientists denied opportunities. Here are 4 paths all worth exploring.

Statisticians have shown that many scientific findings are wrong, and without an increase in statistical know-how for scientists it'll continue happening.

Scientists may have detected radio emissions from a planet orbiting a star beyond our sun for the first time.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever

The galaxy is cosmology's essential building block. The standard model of cosmology has a big new problem: Some galaxies seem to be too old.

Abstract page for arXiv paper 1101.1090: Are we teaching students to think like scientists?

Most of us enjoy the odd tipple after a long week on a Friday or a few drinks with friends at the weekend. And a research project has now suggested that mod...

Long before the search for biosignatures, astronomers imagined a living cosmos where every planet was inhabited by intelligent beings.

The male octopus was repeatedly filmed violently jolting awake from sleep and engaging in unusual activities, but exactly what prompted this odd behavior is...

Jon Stewart has his own ice bowl challenge (of sorts) at 8:30 that pretty much makes this segment.