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Cutting federal funding for scientific research could cause long-run economic damage equivalent to a major recession, according to a new study from researchers at American University. In…
On Thursday night, a Nobel Prize wasn’t the highest accolade in the room — depending on who you asked, it might have been an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Olympic medal or Vince Lombardi Trophy.…
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Researchers at Microsoft have announced the creation of the first “topological qubits” in a device that…
Information on the internet might seem like it’s there forever, but it’s only as permanent as people choose to make it. That’s apparent as the second Trump administration “floods the zone”…
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled Ever since World War II, the US has been the global leader in science and technology—and benefited immensely from it. Research…
When John Eng started studying the poisonous venom of the Gila monster in the early 1990s, it wasn’t immediately clear if the research would lead somewhere. But Eng, a physician and a…
The Super Bowl is one of the world’s most significant single-day sporting events. It attracts over 100 million U.S. viewers and tens of millions of international viewers, making it an…
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Many of us have witnessed unusual and even antisocial behavior at an airport or on a flight. These may…
The link between alcohol and cancer is the subject of an advisory by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, so Newsweek reached out to experts for their thoughts on the topic. In a statement…
Professor Emeritus Takashi Inoguchi of the University of Tokyo (80), and his daughter (33) were found dead in the fire, confirmed the Metropolitan Police Department of Tokyo, Japan. Prof.…
The United Nations' Environmental Program has released a new with yet more dire news about our odds of avoiding climate disaster caused by greenhouse gas emissions. According to this…
GERMAN science and technology group Merck is open to more acquisitions for its Life Science business after announcing in May it would buy Mirus Bio for US$600 million, it said ahead of its…
Kasper Hauser was a boy who spent his life trapped in a cramp dungeon, subsisting on bread and water and sleeping on a bed made of straw. At age 16, a mystery person handed Hauser two…
The Polaris Dawn crew safely returned to Earth early Sunday morning, bringing the historic privately funded mission to a close. The Dragon capsule carrying the mission’s four astronauts —…
A group of international researchers at the in Germany recently discovered one of the rarest types of black holes in the universe. The researchers were observing a cluster of stars in the…
