The year 2018 provided plenty to chew on if you're interested in science and the environment ... The world's plastic waste crisis was one of the big themes of 2018. The problem had been ...

In March, Nasa scientists told the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) that a big fireball had exploded in Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2018. The space rock barrelled in without ...

Two years in, Congress has fully funded subsidies for chipmakers. The big boost in science, however, is way off target. While nearly $53 billion is going into reviving a homegrown semiconductor ...

sign up for Science Friday's newsletters. September 13, 2024 • SpaceX Crew Completes First Citizen Spacewalk Big news in the world of commercial space flight: On Thursday morning, Jared ...

Sep. 17, 2024 — A key step toward reusing CO2 to make sustainable fuels is chaining carbon atoms together, and an artificial photosynthesis system can bind two of ... Using Sunlight to Turn Two ...

New studies show that first-born daughters really do have it the hardest — and that's great news for the rest of us.

New observations from the Webb telescope challenge the Big Bang theory, providing evidence to support the "Tired Light" ...

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The standard model of the universe relies on just six numbers. Using a new approach powered by artificial intelligence, researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues extracted ...

Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way mathematical 'dictionary' ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...