2025-08-02

Look to the Sky: Bright Fireballs Appear During the Perseids Meteor Shower

Look up, and if you're lucky, you could see dozens of meteors in the sky each hour. [...]

2025-08-02

Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams

Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body. [...]

2025-08-01

Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

The grid is becoming cleaner thanks to projects that have been in the works for years. [...]

2025-08-01

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. [...]

2025-08-01

Tech policy could be smarter and less partisan if Congress hadn’t shut down this innovative program

For years, the Office of Technology Assessment helped Congress see around corners on science and tech. Its 1995 shutdown left lawmakers flying blind. [...]

2025-08-01

AC or DC: Which Is Better?

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that? [...]

2025-08-01

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. [...]

2025-08-01

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit

Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended. [...]

2025-07-31

States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations. [...]