Science
Scientific discoveries and research
NASA science soars during August total solar eclipse
Each time the moon covers the sun during a total solar eclipse—darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the sun's ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona—it...
Benefits of middle school program trickle down to next generation
A substance-use prevention program delivered to students and their families in the sixth and seventh grades led to wide-ranging benefits well into adulthood and...
Moon's thick crust could amplify elusive gravitational-wave signals
Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are produced when massive objects in the cosmos accelerate or collide. By detecting these w...
AI-powered camera system offers low-cost way to monitor bumblebees, potentially other insects
Researchers have developed a low-cost, semi-automated, AI-driven method that uses remote cameras to survey bumblebees and potentially other insects. The new too...
Scientists cut and rebuild molecules from the inside to create new chiral nanocarbons
Nanocarbons are molecular-scale carbon structures considered to be the building blocks for next-generation materials. Until now, scientists have built them by f...
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake shakes part of southern Japan and a tsunami advisory is issued
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu late Tuesday afternoon and a tsunami advisory...
Q&A: What influences teens' career expectations?
Adolescents in both the United States and the United Kingdom have become increasingly ambitious about their future careers over the past two decades, according...
Q&A: 'Lawbreakers' or 'like us'? Exploring how partisans think about immigration
Interviews with political activists in Southern California showed stark differences in how migrants are viewed: either "like us" and deserving of rights or lawb...
New sensing method measures laser-cutting depth by tracking vaporization recoil
Laser dicing, a technique that uses focused laser pulses to separate individual chips from a semiconductor wafer, is increasingly favored over mechanical blade...
Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in an Italian community: Gender inequality, social status and migration
An international study led by the Universities of Córdoba and Pisa used isotopic analysis to reconstruct the dietary traces left in human remains found in an It...
Seawater samples may offer early clues to changing reef health
Doctors can often detect diseases in humans using minimally invasive methods, like blood or urine tests, before symptoms become severe. Now, researchers at the...
Water's local asymmetry drives proton hopping between molecules, simulations reveal
Complex simulations—the most intricate of their kind to date—carried out by an international research team led by scientists at Heidelberg University's Institut...