Inspired by animal camouflage, artificial chromatophores can change color with minimal deformation, offering new applications…
A proposed laser-thermal propulsion system could reduce Mars transit times to 45 days by using…
Informing how birds know when and where to stop migrating, researchers using nearly a century’s…
The startup r2c, founded by MIT alumni, offers a database of software security checks to…
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with…
Scientists will learn about objects trespassing on our cosmic turf So far, only two interstellar…
Researchers are using pulsars to detect low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers, and…
Any physical activity is better late than never but earlier in older age, better still.…
Elephant sharks offer a novel perspective on how humans evolved; a new study parses some…
Scientists warn that stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) poses risks like disrupted rainfall and geopolitical vulnerabilities.…
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in…
Dissolving Oil in a Sunlit Sea The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest…
New technique could make quantum networking possible. Engineers at Caltech have developed an approach for…
The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it…
Mutation clusters play a role in 10% of human cancers. These clusters, caused by factors…
When performing calculations, some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting. The brain has…
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can…
Researchers found evidence of a respiratory infection in a young diplodocid dinosaur, possibly caused by…