Well, why not? It worked for Smokey the Bear and forest fires | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1968 | Continue reading
Some early public health messages about COVID-19 have been overturned | Continue reading
Why do we ignore information that could improve our ability to predict the odds of a personal cyberattack? | Continue reading
Experts explain how radiometric dating allows them to reconstruct ancient time lines | Continue reading
Usage patterns shape biases worldwide, whether in Japanese, Persian or English | Continue reading
Life’s journey sometimes takes you to unexpected places | Continue reading
Using less plastic in water meters and other building code changes could help prevent contamination | Continue reading
A piecemeal approach risks overloading electrical systems and tangle of deep sea cables | Continue reading
The first-ever crew-carrying commercial orbital mission is a major spaceflight milestone | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1955 | Continue reading
Compared with traditional lineup techniques, a series of two-faces-at-a-time choices led to more accurate identification by study witnesses. | Continue reading
Compared to traditional lineup techniques, a series of two-faces-at-a-time choices led to more accurate identification by study witnesses. | Continue reading
Disinformation expert Carl Bergstrom gives tips on how to stay calm and make sense pandemic news | Continue reading
Disinformation expert Carl Bergstrom gives tips on how to stay calm and make sense pandemic news | Continue reading
Contrary to the sanitized version we sometimes hear about the civil rights movement, change was not achieved solely by protest marches and people singing “We Shall Overcome” | Continue reading
Biases in the system put the lives and well-being of women and minorities at risk | Continue reading
A separate set of cells in the same region regulate sexual behavior | Continue reading
Once dismissed as a mathematical curiosity, black holes are so strange they almost defy belief. Since their existence was confirmed, research into the nature of black holes has opened up new vistas in physics, and in this eBook, we examine some of the most fascinating discoveries … | Continue reading
Analysis of fox fossils found evidence that they scavenged from wolf and bear kills until H. sapiens supplied plenty of horse and reindeer remains. | Continue reading
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual—and what it means either way | Continue reading
An incoming medical students points out that the field has always been political, prioritizing some bodies over others | Continue reading
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will reveal all sorts of short-term changes in the cosmos—and some could have dire consequences for humanity | Continue reading
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will reveal all sorts of short-term changes in the cosmos—and some could have dire consequences for humanity | Continue reading
We learn as babies that it's ourselves we see in a mirror—but online meeting rooms are a whole different thing | Continue reading
Now submerged caves in the Yucatán Peninsula contain remains of ocher-mining operations that date back at least 10,000 years. | Continue reading
Now-submerged caves in the Yucatán Peninsula contain remains of ochre mining operations that date back at least 10,000 years. | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
Sea ice loss could ultimately beat the record low season of 2012 | Continue reading
Teams are starting to test vaccines using messenger RNA or chimpanzee cold viruses to inoculate humans. Will their benefits last? | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1994 | Continue reading
The decline seen in some studies is normal, experts say. But scientists must wait to see whether infection confers long-term protection | Continue reading
Dinosaurs were big, but these are the largest animals in the history of the planet—and we’re just beginning to understand the reasons | Continue reading
Cows, sheep and dogs increased their activity before tremors, seemingly reacting in part to one another | Continue reading
Journalist and author Emily Anthes talks about her book The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness. | Continue reading
The city aims to add more electric chargers and to convert its bus fleet to meet its emissions-reduction goals | Continue reading
Perseverance will stow away rocks for eventual delivery to Earth, and will listen for Martian sounds for the first time | Continue reading
The latest science book recommendations from our editors | Continue reading
A surprising discovery in the outer solar system could change our ideas about moons that orbit giant planets | Continue reading
Crops sense and respond to drought, pests and other stressors in surprising ways, researchers are discovering | Continue reading
More diversity is needed to reverse long-standing inequities in disaster response policies | Continue reading
Radioactive plutonium is crucial for keeping this and other power-hungry deep-space missions warm and working for yeras on end | Continue reading
Detailed testing of the chemical signature of the Neolithic monument’s most prominent large stones pinpointed where they came from | Continue reading
Detailed testing of the chemical signature of the Neolithic monument’s most prominent large stones pinpointed where they came from | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1908 | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1908 | Continue reading
It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability | Continue reading