2025-06-24

I Used Science to Find the Best Cooking Appliance During a Heat Wave

Forget standing over a hot grill in 90-degree heat and don't even think about turning on the oven. I crunched the numbers and this is the best cooking appliance to use during scorching summer hea [...]

2025-06-24

Tuesday Telescope: A new champion enters the ring

Behold the awesome power of basic science funding by the US government. [...]

2025-06-24

Discovery of HMS Endeavor wreck confirmed

“The timbers are British timbers. The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour." [...]

2025-06-23

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory shares first images from planned decade-long survey of the sky

The National Science Foundation just shared the first images captured by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a sample of the footage it'll capture as part of a planned decade-long survey that's s [...]

2025-06-23

How a grad student got LHC data to play nice with quantum interference

New approach is already having an impact on the experiment’s plans for future work. [...]

2025-06-23

Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens. [...]

2025-06-23

The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is poised to discover billions of new astronomical objects, revolutionizing understanding of everything from the history of the solar system to the workings of dark energ [...]

2025-06-23

Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

Altering chemical modifications of DNA lets the DNA from two sperm make a mouse. [...]

2025-06-23

India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level

Remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence are mapping the most heat-vulnerable buildings in cities like Delhi, in an effort to target relief from extreme temperatures at a granular level. [...]