Incoming! SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket on Collision Course With the Moon
Update as of February 15: Additional analysis by, among others, citizen-scientist Bill Gray and colleagues at NASA’s JPL, now indicates that the object expected to impact the…
Update as of February 15: Additional analysis by, among others, citizen-scientist Bill Gray and colleagues at NASA’s JPL, now indicates that the object expected to impact the…
Men twice as likely to fall victim, with young people, Black, and Native American women, and LGBTQ individuals also at high risk. During the COVID-19…
To Keep or Not To Keep Those New Year’s Resolutions? New research suggests that people may not always want help with sticking to their New…
A multidisciplinary team has succeeded in explaining the complex distribution of scales in the ocellated lizard by means of a simple equation. The shape-shifting clouds…
A Different Kind of Queen’s Gambit Harvard mathematician largely resolves 150-year-old chess problem involving most powerful piece on board. The queen is the most powerful…
Negative labels influence consumer perception of food, study finds. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a chocolate chip cookie labeled…
Engineers and technicians successfully completed a second countdown sequencing test on January 24 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida….
New study calls into question the importance of meat-eating in shaping our evolution. Quintessential human traits such as large brains first appear in Homo erectus…
DOE Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument passes 7.5 million measured galaxy redshifts. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has cataloged more galaxies than all other previous…
Chimpanzees don’t automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now used field experiments…
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warn of lack of progress on climate, nuclear weapons. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on January 20 that…
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki seeks creative ways to design technology that considers the human user. Ibuki Iwasaki came to MIT without a clear idea of what…
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study. Learning to navigate social relationships…
New research led by the University of Bristol has revealed how giant 50-ton sauropod dinosaurs, like Diplodocus, evolved from much smaller ancestors, like the wolf-sized…
What’s the best way to improve a sad mood? It may be whatever skill you think you’re best at, a new study suggests. Think you’re…
The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the beginning. Cardiovascular conditions are among the highest risk factors for hospitalization. A significant number…
Scientists have found that adding a common household cleaning agent – the mineral boron contained in such cleaners as Borax – can vastly improve the…
Spread out or bead up? A new process enables control over liquid-solid interfaces even with the most unlikely pairs of materials. The wettability of a…