A mystery about why biological molecules come in just one of two possible configurations may have been answered | Continue reading
In cities with relatively clean electricity and long car commutes, widespread telework could reduce greenhouse gas emissions | Continue reading
In cities with relatively clean electricity and long car commutes, widespread telework could reduce greenhouse gas emissions | Continue reading
The system works like noise-cancelling headphones, but fits over an open window. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Journalist Bob Hirshon reports from the Taking Nature Black conference, reporter Shahla Farzan talks about tracking copperhead snakes, and nanoscientist Ondrej Krivanek on microscopes with sub-ångström resolution. | Continue reading
The Clean Air Act would be a key avenue for pursuing more stringent emissions reductions | Continue reading
The White House told hospitals to report data through a private company system instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Continue reading
A long-awaited map of the big bang’s afterglow fails to settle a debate over how fast the universe is expanding | Continue reading
Philosopher Susan Schneider weighs the pros and cons of radical technological enhancement | Continue reading
The assay looks for stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver malignancies | Continue reading
Originally published in February 1900 | Continue reading
Meteorologists are using supercomputers and the latest data about climate phenomena to predict temperature and precipitation four weeks in the future | Continue reading
Despite tracing’s success in other countries, the U.S. government has failed to adequately fund or apply the tool | Continue reading
Research reveals the subtle ways that impolite electronic communication at work brings you down | Continue reading
Feral cats, feral pigs and black rats are putting many species on the fast track toward extinction. | Continue reading
DNA changes tied to immune reactions, a viral doorway and blood type could affect disease severity | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1848 | Continue reading
Commercial planes and ships usually gather valuable data to feed into weather models | Continue reading
Celebration is tinged with relief as $200-million orbiter embarks on 7-month odyssey to the Red Planet | Continue reading
Vaccination used against smallpox during the Civil War reveals the identity of the distantly related virus used to keep troops disease free. | Continue reading
Astronomer Jackie Faherty shares her tips for an ideal viewing experience | Continue reading
Camouflaged nanoparticles can soak up toxins like red bloods cells do | Continue reading
In responding to the pandemic, society may be hampered by cognitive and political beliefs that distort judgments and lead to irrational decisions | Continue reading
Manipulated videos are getting more sophisticated all the time—but so are the techniques that can identify them | Continue reading
A new video re-creates a history that never happened, showing the power of AI-generated media | Continue reading
Manipulated videos are getting more sophisticated all the time—but so are the techniques that can identify them | Continue reading
A new video re-creates a history that never happened, showing the power of AI-generated media | Continue reading
A study of nearly 200 U.S. medical centers found that even apparently healthy kids suffer racial disparities in complications associated with surgery | Continue reading
Darwin’s legacy on nerves and behavior; the epic tale of monuments | Continue reading
Mistakenly presumed extinct for 22 years, the rare Wendlandia angustifolia tree now has an opportunity for priority preservation | Continue reading
Thinking that we might is an example of what psychologists call “anchoring bias” | Continue reading
Pandemic highlights for the week | Continue reading
The aim is to reduce the carbon intensity of operations, but critics say the plan does not go far enough | Continue reading
Originally published in November 1904 | Continue reading
Some simple, practical steps can raise your resistance to viruses | Continue reading
COVID-19 is threatening an already scarce but essential health care resource | Continue reading
Zapping copper with lasers enhances its antimicrobial properties | Continue reading
People aren't very good at judging whether someone coughing or sneezing has an infectious condition or is simply reacting to something benign that makes them cough or sneeze. | Continue reading
The city was initially slow to change after the disaster killed 739 people, but is now a model for heat preparedness | Continue reading
Close-up reveals a surface dancing with ‘campfires’ | Continue reading
Florida will soon reopen to launches for pole-orbiting spacecraft | Continue reading
The tenets of Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century statistician and minister, underpin the latest estimates of the prevalence of extraterrestrial life | Continue reading
We need to be extremely careful about the inevitable pitfalls | Continue reading
Researchers question whether a mutated viral strain that infected more cells in a lab dish is necessarily more transmissible among humans | Continue reading
The man who discovered Jupiter’s satellites and the mountains of the moon had no patience for idiots | Continue reading
Fifteen communities set records for the number of days with such floods last year | Continue reading
We’re inevitably forced to make decisions without knowing all of the facts | Continue reading
Originally published in August 1911 | Continue reading