Science News celebrates 100 years

For a century, Science News has been covering the latest advances in science, medicine and technology. While the always-evolving nature of science is inspiring, it’s the themes that endure ... Read More

Scientists Face Dilemma

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Scientists think they’ve solved the mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare

Astronomers have long wondered why spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are so rare in our local galactic neighborhood. New research using supercomputer simulations of the evolution of our neighborhood ... Read More

Scientists inspired the right guardrails for nuclear energy, the internet, and DNA research. Let them do the same for AI

Like with other tech that exposed humanity to possible annihilation, a Pugwash conference for AI scientists is urgently needed. Read More

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The past 10 years have seen a series of "warm blobs ... A team of astronomers and citizen scientists has discovered a planet in the habitable zone of an unusual star system, including two stars ... Read More

Science Friday

Citizen Scientists Will Capture DNA ... to talk through some climate solutions news and other top science stories of the week, including a record year for wind energy, a proposal to swap out ... Read More

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Apr. 25, 2024 — How do birds fly in a coordinated and seemingly effortless fashion? Part of the answer lies in precise, and previously unknown, aerodynamic interactions, reports a team of ... Read More

If Alien Life Is Found, How Should Scientists Break the News?

Will the news cause fear ... continent 13,000 years ago. In 1996 a group of scientists—some of whom were affiliated with NASA—claimed in the journal Science that the special space rock ... Read More

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as the Earth passes through a concentrated clump of 3,000-year-old comet debris Amateur photographer Michael Sanchez captured photos of the blue-and-chestnut bird on a beach—but he didn’t ... Read More

Political Science News

Feb. 1, 2023 — People who share a political ideology have more similar 'neural fingerprints' of political words and process new information in similar ways, ... U.S. Political Partisanship ... Read More

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The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for more than 100 years—now Mülheim scientists have discovered a safer alternative. The Ritter Group of the Max Planck ... Read More

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The country's drugs and pharmaceuticals exports increased 9.67 per cent year-on-year to USD 27.9 billion ... A group of WWII-era scientists used themselves as guinea pigs to learn to breathe ... Read More