Category Science & Discovery

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An overnight SpaceX launch planned for early Saturday will use a booster that’s already flown to space 25 times. A Falcon 9 is targeting 1:14 a.m. carrying 21 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveal Space Force Station’s…

Credit: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty A new and seemingly more impressive artificial intelligence (AI) tool is released almost weekly, and researchers are flocking to try them out. Whether they are looking to edit manuscripts, write code or generate hypotheses, researchers…

A study by the University of Southampton (UK) has found microscopic particles emitted from certain types of commonly fitted brake pads can be more toxic than those found in diesel vehicle exhaust. The research shows that a higher concentration of…

About 30 million years ago, parts of Egypt were covered in lush forests. Within those trees, lurked an order of fearsome big cat-sized carnivores called Hyaenodonta. These apex predators thrived after the dinosaurs went extinct, but would eventually meet their…

A hunter holds a captured iguana in Pingtung, Taiwan. The iguana population has exploded since the spikey-backed giant lizards were introduced from Central and South America more than 20 years ago as exotic pets. Armed with a slingshot, Taiwanese bounty…

Adam Levy: 00:02 Hello, I’m Adam Levy, and this is Mind Matters: Academia’s Mental Health Crisis, a podcast from Nature Careers. In this episode: researching environmental destruction. My background is in climate science. I did my doctorate in atmospheric physics,…

Dravet syndrome and other developmental epileptic encephalopathies are rare but devastating conditions that cause a host of symptoms in children, including seizures, intellectual disability, and even sudden death. Most cases are caused by a genetic mutation; Dravet syndrome in particular…

Decades ago, my parents bought their first non-GM car: a 1990 Honda Accord. It had a manual transmission, and my mom eventually passed it down to my sister, who kept it for many years before it was retired. I remember…

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels There is only so much thinking most of us can do in our heads. Try dividing 16,951 by 67 without reaching for a pen and paper. Or a calculator. Try doing the weekly shopping without…

NASA’s diverse astronaut corps was an example of the agency’s support for diversity and inclusion.Credit: James Blair/NASA/JSC In the corridors of NASA buildings across the United States, Pride flags and pictures celebrating women in science are being taken down. Scientists…