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Doreen Boyd remembers the first time she saw a hint of slavery from space. A satellite image from 2017 of Rajasthan state in India showed a brown oval that ...

If you picture early humans dining, you likely imagine them sitting down to a barbecue of mammoth, aurochs, and giant elk meat. But in the rainforests of Sri ...

After weeks of low visibility, the White House science adviser, who reported for work in January in the midst of the government shutdown, last week delivered his ...

“The most outrageous object that most people have never heard of,” as one scientist calls it, is the subject of our cover story—and, to my mind at least, such ...

Methanol—a colorless liquid that can be made from agricultural waste—has long been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels. But it's toxic and only has half ...

Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.

Lately there's been a push to acquaint educators with “the science of learning.” But only some aspects of that science actually help teachers do their jobs. Others ...

Physicists burned out 12 microwaves putting this trick to the test.

DEPRESSION could be reversed in people, according to recent research conducted by leading scientists, and certain symptoms of the sometimes debilitating ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Five years ago, two scientists in two labs separated by thousands of kilometers started to stay late and work weekends to conduct secret ...

Seismologist and policy advisor Lucy Jones says science education needs to teach how science works more than just what it finds out. Full Transcript. “I think we ...

Free software will save psychology from the Replication Crisis. "Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble'".—The Independent ...

Scientists have warned about the impact of plastic pollution in the most pristine corners of the world after discovering chemical additives in birds' eggs in the ...

JAXA is preparing to sample an asteroid called Ryugu with the agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft — so the team practiced on Earth first.

Another executive with a data and technology background is taking a big leadership role at Omnicom. Erin Matts, former North American CEO of Annalect, was ...

Next month California students will start to be tested on the state's new science standards for the first time, but with little instruction in the subject in elementary ...

UC leads colleges and universities in the number of recipients of this year's distinguished annual award.

Explora is hostnig a special event called the Science of Beer. Beer is an important economic driver in our city and state, and it's a tasty beverage.

EDMONTON — Dozens of oilsands environmental impact studies are marred by inconsistent science that's rarely subjected to independent checks, says a ...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History tells the story of the Atomic Age, from early development to today's peaceful uses.

Researchers believe they have identified the prime driver for a startling rise in the number of people who think the Earth is flat: Google's video-sharing site, ...

A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.

The UCD Agriculture, Food Science and Human Nutrition Careers Day 2019 took place on campus today (Tuesday, February 19). According to the event ...

In response to an outcry from top journal editors about the loss of trust in medicine, Mazer and Mandrola suggest ditching peer review and inviting nonscientists ...

LONDON FASHION WEEK - With London Fashion Week in full swing, we take a look at how Imperial is using science to invent the fashion of the future.

Over the years that I've written pieces here at Scientific American I've only very occasionally talked about the process of writing about science, since there have ...

Some kids spend their time on social media. Other kids spend their time playing video games. When it comes to 14-year-Jackson Oswalt, his time is spent in a ...

The boundaries between rocks with different physical properties in Earth's interior come from either a change in crystal structure or a change in chemical ...

Machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyse data are producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong.

A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do.

The popular community science series Science at the Local returns for their fifth year of free bimonthly talks on Sunday March 17, from 2.30pm at Springwood ...

Science breaks down the evidence on the link between Toxoplasma gondii and mental illness.

Aerogels hold promise as lightweight replacements for thermal insulation. However, poor mechanical stability has hampered progress in moving toward ...

A major perk of being the majority party in the U.S. Congress is getting to fill the leadership slots on every committee. For several new Democratic legislators, ...

Eau Claire (WQOW)- More than 100 Chippewa Valley residents are headed to Madison on Wednesday to push for local priorities. The Chippewa Valley Alliance ...

A group of computer scientists once backed by Elon Musk has caused some alarm by developing an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) they say is too ...

A screening tool designed specifically to assess for human trafficking was more likely to identify sexual and labor exploitation of youth, as well as the risk factors, ...

In 'The Second Kind of Impossible,' physicist Paul Steinhardt recounts his journey to find quasicrystals in nature.

Click beetles are an unusual insect species, capable of launching themselves from ground with more than eight times the acceleration of a space shuttle - and ...

Wallace Broecker, the US climate scientist who helped popularise the term "global warming" has died in New York at the age of 87. Prof Broecker was among ...

Evaluation of observed sea level rise impacts to date has emphasized sea level extremes, such as those from tropical cyclones. Far less is known about the ...

Nate Murphy is a high-profile fossil hunter and former curator of palaeontology at the Phillips County Museum in Malta, US. In 2001, he uncovered a mummified ...

Created by Italian design studio idea3D, the Levia lamp is a cool industrial-looking lamp which boasts a levitating bulb. Looking for a table light that will dazzle ...

Researchers built software that can automatically process ultrasonic rat squeaks. We invited a rat into our studio to test it out.

The new science adviser to President Donald Trump has studied the causes and effects of extreme weather for nearly 4 decades. But meteorologist Kelvin ...

French writers such as Voltaire and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle helped shape the Enlightenment with stories of science.

In a major scientific step to understand the biology of this iconic apex predator and sharks in general, the entire genome of the white shark has now been ...

Textiles trap infrared radiation, which helps keep us warm in cold weather. Of course, in hot weather, this is less desirable. Zhang et al. constructed an ...

Just months after revealing an impact crater the size of Washington, D.C., buried under the ice of northwestern Greenland, a team of scientists has discovered ...

Doctors could use Crispr tool to inject benign virus into foetus's brain to 'switch on' key genes.

THE universe just got considerably bigger after astronomers discovered almost 300000 previously undetected galaxies.

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the so-called “Endangerment Finding.” This defined a suite of six long-lived greenhouse ...

Science is the coolest, and newest, type of edutainment to take over kiddie world, and WAFI will be hosting an interactive exhibition for families which will ...

It's touted as a pain reliever, and a way to reduce anxiety and bolster cognitive performance, but mindfulness meditation also physically changes the brain.

Starting Feb. 23, OMSI hosts “The Science Behind Pixar,” an exhibit about the science and technology of Pixar films.

A Star Trek–like replicator has arrived, but don't expect it to synthesize a cup of Earl Grey tea (hot) on the spot. Researchers have come up with a new 3D ...

How should we treat the political opponents of President Trump, who argue that Trump is Putin's puppet, and that he will be in prison no later than next Monday?

Measles cases more than tripled across Europe in 2018, and one country drove much of the surge: Ukraine. Nearly 83,000 cases of measles were reported in ...

The assumption goes that lab-grown meat will drastically reduce emissions of beef production. But you know what they say about assumptions.

In a newly published paper, OpenAI suggests that social science holds the key to ensuring AI systems perform as intended.

He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who claimed to have edited the genomes of twin baby girls in a heritable way—and earned widespread condemnation for ...

If Mars conceals a lake beneath its south polar ice cap, the planet must also have a hidden chamber of magma to keep the water liquid, a new analysis suggests.

A costly and controversial space-based cosmic ray detector has found possible signs of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to supply most of the universe's ...

NEW DELHI—In response to months of protests and marches, the Indian government announced yesterday that it will give early-career scientists raises of up to ...

Psychologists say the emotion of awe plays a big role in our health, happiness and wellbeing. And you don't need to witness a supermoon to experience it.

In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

How Ahmed El Ghandour's love of science led to an online show watched by millions of Egyptians.

Scientists have quantitatively confirmed how energetic an auroral breakup can be. Using a combination of cutting-edge ground-based technology and new ...

Caster Semenya, the two-time Olympic 800-metre champion from South Africa didn't take questions as she arrived at the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday ...

In the United States alone, we spend more than $2.5 billion a year trying to rid our homes of cockroaches and other pests—but a new study says some of us may ...

STONEHENGE'S iconic pillars were dragged hundreds of miles over land to the mysterious Salisbury site, a scientist has claimed.

*Update, 13 February, 2:10 p.m.: After more than a thousand attempts to revive the Opportunity rover, including a final unanswered command last night, NASA ...

It's hard to imagine a teen asking their mother for approval on anything. But a new study shows that male zebra finches—colorful songbirds with complex ...

Of all the many ways the teeming ecosystem of microbes in a person's gut and other tissues might affect health, its potential influences on the brain may be the ...

The Kīlauea Volcano on the island of Hawai'i erupted for 3 months in 2018. Neal et al. present a summary of the eruption sequence along with a variety of ...

If you've got the stomach for it, you can watch 10,000 maggots demolish the above pizza in 2 hours. Now, scientists have a better sense of how these fly larvae ...

Many animals understand numbers at a basic level for use in essential tasks such as foraging, shoaling, and resource management. However, complex ...

What may be the oldest-known Earth rock has turned up in a surprising place: the moon. A 2-centimeter chip embedded in a larger rock collected by Apollo ...

Poor oral health is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. What's not clear is whether gum disease causes the disorder or is merely a result—many patients with ...

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times discussed how the College Board is pushing for students to focus on mastering “two codes” — computer science ...

Scientists are sharing on Twitter the weirdest things they've done in the name of science, offering up a fascinating glimpse into what scientists consider.

Parents rush to the hospital every day after their kids swallow toys. To calm their fears, six brave doctors swallowed Legos for science.

Robot the size of a golf buggy has sent data to Earth for 15 years but fell silent eight months ago and Nasa says mission is complete.

Scientists have developed dozens of new graphene-based prototypes. These technologies aim to turn mobile phones into life saving devices.

Soft, squishy, ancient spiders are hard to investigate - they don't fossilise as easily as bones or exoskeletons. So you can imagine how excited researchers were ...

THE YELLOWSTONE volcano could bring about “biblical” implications for up to six years if it was to erupt again in the future, a geophysicist warned during a ...

For coastal communities, the sea level rise propelled by melting ice and warming oceans is bad enough. But people living on the soft, compressible sediments of ...

Genetic recombination is an essential process in generating genetic diversity. Recombination occurs both through the shuffling of maternal and paternal ...

Authors of a new paper take issue with revisions to regulations on biospecimen research enacted last month, and argue that cell lines should be treated ...

A SCIENTIST warned how in the event of Earth being swallowed by a black hole, the human body would be completely ripped apart in a process known as ...

Walk down a busy street in most Latin American cities today and you'll see a palette of skin colors from dark brown to sepia to cream. For 500 years, people have ...

When a star passes close to a massive black hole (MBH), it is ripped apart by the strong tidal forces. As the resulting debris falls toward the MBH, it heats up, ...

Scientists have identified what they think could be a simple, practical test to predict people's heart health, and it's about as quick as saying, "Drop and give me ...

Colorado plans major study of emissions from indoor growing facilities.

New therapeutic molecules show promise in reversing the memory loss linked to depression and aging. These molecules not only rapidly improve symptoms, ...

Australian Academy of Science panel says urgent steps needed to restore flows.

Breakthrough means large sheets of energy-harvesting material can be produced.

Even the humble fruit fly needs sleep. Toda et al. screened ∼12,000 fruit fly lines and identified a single sleep-promoting molecule encoded by a gene they ...

New study may help solve the mystery of why crocodylians swallow stones.

Adopting the framework of brain dynamics as a cornerstone of human consciousness, we determined whether dynamic signal coordination provides specific and ...