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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. On Aug. 31,...

An analysis of 16 apps used as alternatives to incarceration found numerous privacy problems including in an app used to...

“This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at DeepMind, and one of the paper’s coauthors with...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Like many people,...

Simple plastics can be turned into tiny diamonds with a pulse of laser light, and a similar process may occur...

Let's consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its sun...

One in 800 children are born with Down syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. The vast majority...

Indian jumping ant queens live nine times longer than worker females in the same colony, which may be due to...

That sediment is special, indeed. Desert sand from, say, the Sahara is no good for making concrete because it’s too...

1972 A Muon Phone Someday “In April a sequence of Morse-code V's (dot dot dot dash) was transmitted by a...

By Leah Crane NASA’s Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on top at Kennedy Space Center in FloridaNASA/Joel...

In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small trial run at...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I'm Ashleigh Papp. It's summertime in New York City–birds are chirping, insects...

Songs that were first heard from humpback whales off eastern Australia were picked up in whales off Ecuador several years...

“I remember the first time I ever shaved my legs, I didn’t even tell my mom,” Bortner says. “I was...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Dallas area is still reeling from record-breaking downpours that triggered flash floods across northeastern Texas last week. The...