Neural circuits that track our whereabouts in space and time may also play vital roles in determining how we relate to other people | Continue reading
Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about “panpsychism” | Continue reading
Originally published in November 2000 | Continue reading
Room-sized "atom waves" could help probe the quantum realm | Continue reading
They’re not meant to be taken as gospel truths | Continue reading
The physiology of weight regain still baffles scientists, but surprising insights have emerged | Continue reading
The Murchison meteorite, which screamed to Earth 50 years ago, carried with it stardust that's seven billion years old. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Perovskite may be more efficient, and cheaper, that traditional silicon, but durability remains an issue | Continue reading
Most states still allow this damaging practice targeting young teens | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1869 | Continue reading
Gravitational waves attributed to the collision of two neutron stars could have been produced by something much stranger | Continue reading
Hunted areas of Gabon have fewer large mammals and a thicker forest understory—but they also have fewer termites. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading
Entertainment technology over the past 175 years | Continue reading
Rats learned to drive tiny cars as a model for acquiring new skills | Continue reading
Electric vehicles, delivery drones and rules on when delivery trucks can operate are some solutions proposed in a new report | Continue reading
Over the first leg of the trip, scientists say they are already learning how much humans have altered the polar region | Continue reading
Over the first leg of the trip, scientists say they are already learning how much humans have altered the polar region | Continue reading
After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives | Continue reading
Latest launch includes “DarkSat” prototype to minimize reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1958 | Continue reading
A novel study in Nepal shines light on why people commit wildlife crime and how others might be dissuaded from doing so in the future | Continue reading
The starfish relatives can recognize patterns using photoreceptors on their arms—and their color-changing abilities could have something to do with it. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Once pathogens become tolerant of one drug, they are more likely to become resilient against others, a clinical study finds | Continue reading
Researchers are making use of an unprecedented opportunity to study the cathedral's innards | Continue reading
The virus behind an outbreak that has sickened at least 59 people in Wuhan is thought to be a type of coronavirus, the family that includes SARS and MERS | Continue reading
The changes would underestimate the true contributions to global warming of fossil fuel infrastructure and other projects | Continue reading
Despite some success, the species remains threatened in the U.S. West. Biologists are trying to understand why | Continue reading
The challenge is to build an airplane without moving control surfaces | Continue reading
New research illuminates why most dieters regain lost weight. It’s even more complicated than we thought | Continue reading
Originally published in January 1856 | Continue reading
New machine-learning technique can distinguish living bodies from deceased ones | Continue reading
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak , an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep. | Continue reading
Cyberattacks and missile launches have already happened | Continue reading
Cyberattacks and missile launches have already happened | Continue reading
Astronomers are struggling to explain the repeated, milliseconds-long chirps from a mysterious source | Continue reading
This new detection—the second of its kind—raises new questions about the nature of these mysterious objects | Continue reading
The pathogen has been newly identified in eight cases of encephalitis in Germany over the past 20 years | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1869 | Continue reading
The large, intense fires have threatened more than 800 million animals in the state of New South Wales alone, according to one estimate | Continue reading
Scientists observed two Atlantic puffins using sticks to scratch themselves—the first known instance of seabirds using tools. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
The annual FEMA summary is at odds with government research showing that warming is exacerbating natural disasters | Continue reading
Could the process of aging be slowed or even reversed in skin? New metabolomics studies suggest it can. | Continue reading
TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite | Continue reading
As the first clinical trial results trickle in, researchers look ahead to more sophisticated medical applications for genome editing | Continue reading
DNA-based medicine needs more diversity to avoid harmful bias. One big research project is fixing that | Continue reading
DNA-based medicine needs more diversity to avoid harmful bias. One big research project is fixing that | Continue reading
Despite numerous setbacks, the $9.7-billion observatory is still on schedule to revolutionize our view of the universe | Continue reading
Originally published in June 1969 | Continue reading