In this age of screens, smartphones, virtual assistants, and voice-enabled speakers, we are constantly bombarded by visual and auditory suggestions of things to do, products to buy, and media to consume. Yet are all these messages created equal?

As the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis focus our minds on how to reduce energy, a group of scientists have highlighted the hidden environmental cost behind some of our major breakthroughs.

Although enhancers and promoters appear to coordinate their actions, it is unclear how this happens

PPPL scientists have advanced in discovering how to use ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of everything we know.

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New “cyborg cells” developed by biomedical engineers could help clean the environment and improve human health.

The conjunction will be the closest observable pairing of naked-eye planets this year.

South Korea currently has a probe called Danuri orbiting the Moon at an altitude of about 62 miles above the surface. It's jus

When it comes to exploration, robots can outperform astronauts at a far lower cost and without risk of human life. Why, then, do so many people conceive of space exploration as the domain of humans rather than robotic explorers? Martin Rees and Donald Goldsm…

Night-sky photography is offering a sneak peek at the green-comet spectacle you could spy with binoculars or a telescope over the next two weeks.

As science and technology advance, we're asking our space missions to deliver more and more results. NASA's MSL Curiosity and Perseverance rovers illustrate this fact. Perseverance is an exceptionally exquisite assemblage of technologies. These cutting-edge r…

Campos, Helga, and Zohar have finally exited Orion and are now en route to their respective labs.

Scientists are investigating how matter gets its mass by confining quarks. A novel method for investigating quarks, the fundamental particles that make up the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei, has been proposed. This innovative approach has never been at…

Some people heard a loud boom and saw an unusual sighting in the Oklahoma sky early Friday morning.

Some people are annoyed when they encounter a fresh pile of dung while out on a walk in nature. Others are excited because it points to the recent visit of a particular kind of animal. But some scientists, myself included, may just be disappointed that the du…

With an FPGA sensor module, existing fiber optic communications lines can pull double duty as environmental monitoring sensors.

So that's where the supernova remnants have been hiding.

Novel drugs, such as vaccines against COVID-19, among others, are based on drug transport using nanoparticles. Whether this drug transport is negatively influenced by an accumulation of blood proteins on the nanoparticle's surface was not clarified for a long…

During evolution, the acquisition of special types of cells and tissues requires new regulatory genes that control cell division and cell differentiation. Here, we found that stomatal basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors are co-opted for the de…

It is well known that cancerous tumor cells have an acidic pH microenvironment (pH 5.6 to 6.8). Using this unique feature, researchers have developed a new anticancer therapeutic agent that selectively kills cancer cells. This access allows detached malignant…

A recently discovered acoustic effect allows a hot gas to simulate the gravity-induced convection within a star or giant planet.

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS, President Hyun-Min Park) has succeeded in developing a high-performance energy analyzer, which is a key technology for determining the performance of electron microscopes. The service will be made avai…

Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb.