At just six light years away, the candidate planet would be the second-closest world known beyond our solar system—and a prime target for future studies | Continue reading
Wind and solar costs have plummeted, but global energy demands will continue to rise | Continue reading
Wind farms can cause a cascade of ecological effects, but are still needed to provided cleaner energy supplies | Continue reading
Researchers give AI the ability to simulate the anticipated needs and actions of others | Continue reading
A few very brief reports about international science and technology from Alaska to Indonesia, including one on offshore dairy farming from the Netherlands. | Continue reading
Airplanes and a planned burn of forest area will help identify the thousands of chemicals in smoke plumes | Continue reading
Research reveals the common mistakes we make when trying to help | Continue reading
Arctic predators have been eating twice as many shorebird eggs, threatening populations and potentially migration itself | Continue reading
A 2007 agreement aimed to reduce regional emissions, then political winds shifted | Continue reading
To know what a wildfire might do next, researchers need to know how an inferno interacts with the atmosphere | Continue reading
But the dolphins are no slouches either | Continue reading
New practices, and new chemistries, are needed to end the scourge | Continue reading
Adult humans laugh primarily on the exhale, but human babies laugh on the inhale and the exhale—as do chimps. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that too much “good” cholesterol may be just as bad as too little. Dr. Sanaz Majd joins Nutrition Diva to sort out what this new research means for our heart health and risks | Continue reading
Grunya Sukhareva characterized autism nearly two decades before Austrian doctors Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger | Continue reading
Experts see the recovery effort as a test case for how the U.S. military prepares for climate change | Continue reading
We can prove things in math, but does that mean they’re true? | Continue reading
Prolonged social isolation can do severe, long-lasting damage to the brain | Continue reading
Which are the next walls to fall in science and society? | Continue reading
Researchers recorded piranha 'honks' and catfish 'screeches' in the Peruvian Amazon, which might illuminate fish activity in murky jungle waters. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading
Infectious Diseases affect us like clockwork, although it’s not clear why | Continue reading
The Democrats campaigned on protecting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and lowering prescription drug prices | Continue reading
The evaluation aims to help authorities better plan and prepare for the impacts of climate change | Continue reading
New recordings of electrical activity in the brain help reveal the underpinnings of bad moods | Continue reading
Berlin conference spotlights world-shaping science | Continue reading
Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life | Continue reading
Anthropologist Jennifer Raff argues that race is culturally created, but has biological consequences. | Continue reading
Astronomers have observed new details of black-hole growth previously hidden by obscuring clouds of gas and dust | Continue reading
The country’s pioneering first report on its biological invaders paints a dire picture for resources and biodiversity | Continue reading
Washington’s effort to impose a carbon tax was one of the climate proposals defeated at the polls | Continue reading
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen dives into why our minds love to go green | Continue reading
Even on the International Space Station, American astronauts manage to vote | Continue reading
Illinois and New Mexico are among the states that could defy the Trump administration with stricter tailpipe emissions standards | Continue reading
Illicit nuclear detonations are anything but secret | Continue reading
Astronomers have found some of the most distant galaxies in the universe, opening a window on a previously unknown period of cosmic history | Continue reading
Airships or solar-powered airplanes may be next in line for a return to Earth’s “evil twin” | Continue reading
Political attitudes reflect cognitive styles that are rooted in differing cultures | Continue reading
The midterm elections will test whether science can transcend politics in the U.S. | Continue reading
The finding could help answer a longstanding question of how massive stone blocks were hauled into place | Continue reading
Researchers have created a 'modular' robot which can analyze its environment and reconfigure itself to overcome obstacles and achieve tasks. This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on October 31, 2018. It is a Nature Video production. | Continue reading
The computer has one million processors and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards | Continue reading