Science

The sun’s enormous energy may soon be harnessed in the dark of night following a significant advance in thermal capture...

Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the...

Quantum-encrypted messages sent through cables over long distances are sensitive to tiny vibrations, suggesting a possible by-product of a future...

Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words...

As the first wave of the COVID pandemic washed across the world, it left devastation in its wake. The novel...

A wireless contact lens that monitors eye pressure and delivers glaucoma drugs on demand has been tested in animals Health...

While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to the...

For years, organizations have taken a defensive “castle-and-moat” approach to cybersecurity, seeking to secure the perimeters of their networks to...

CLIMATEWIRE | Climate adaptation comes in myriad shapes and sizes. In Westchester County, N.Y., it could take the form of...

Beautiful floating organisms called neuston are gathered up by the same ocean currents as plastic pollution, and they may be...

University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have developed a more accurate, less invasive technology that allows amputees to move a...

These are tumultuous times for the Supreme Court. Since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Court in October 2020, the...

By Adam Vaughan Campaigners at COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021ANDY BUCHANAN/AFP via Getty Images Sebastian Mernild’s presentation pulled no...

In Greenland in January 2021, a child just under two years old was sick—very sick. And his doctors couldn’t figure...

You may be familiar with direct air capture, or DAC, in which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere in...

Heart disease kills more people of all sexes than anything else. But for more women than men, a heart attack...