Diamond stands up to a squeeze. Surprisingly, the material’s structure persists even when compressed to 2 trillion pascals, more than…
Read More »Science
It feels good to recycle. There’s a certain sense of accomplishment that comes from dutifully sorting soda bottles, plastic bags…
Read More »
FundamentalsFrank WilczekPenguin Press, $26 As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided…
Read More »
A new robotic grabber is ripped straight from the plant world. The device, made with a severed piece of a…
Read More »
By the sweat of their brow — Science News, January 23, 1971 Polywater, or anomalous water, has provoked a continuing…
Read More »
Around 20 million years ago, giant ocean worms may have burrowed into the seafloor and burst forth like the space…
Read More »
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused the mental health of U.S. college students to plummet, a new study shows. Students…
Read More »
Scientists have finally gotten a clear view of the spark that sets off an exotic type of lightning called a…
Read More »
Inauguration Day marks both a grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic and a new chapter in the U.S. response to…
Read More »
For the first time, astronomers have definitively spotted a flaring magnetar in another galaxy. These ultra-magnetic stellar corpses were thought…
Read More »
The most ancient black hole ever discovered is so big it defies explanation. This active supermassive black hole, or quasar,…
Read More »
A highly contagious coronavirus variant will become the dominant version of the virus in the United States in March, emphasizing…
Read More »
The Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to the sun. On January 17, the NASA spacecraft will make its seventh…
Read More »
The New Climate WarMichael E. MannPublic Affairs, $29 Sometime around the fifth century B.C., the Chinese general and military strategist…
Read More »
2020 is in a “dead heat” with 2016 for the hottest year on record, scientists with NASA and the National…
Read More »
Inside a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have found one of the oldest known artistic depictions of…
Read More »
The warming planet continues to affect even the coldest parts of the world. More recently, scientists reported that the Arctic…
Read More »
While COVID-19 does leave long-term effects on survivors, a new study suggests that those effects can heal over time. With…
Read More »
Apple continues its efforts to improve health and well-being by helping out UCLA on a three-year study on depression and…
Read More »
One of the unnoticed aftermath of the pandemic is the increasing generated waste from thrown away personal protective equipment (PPEs).…
Read More »