Category: Science

Road salt, used in copious helpings each winter to protect them from ice and preserve safe driving conditions, is slowly degrading the concrete they’re made

Heading abroad doesn’t mean missing out on legendary natural history programming. With a top-rated VPN, you can unlock streaming access to the BBC’s complete Sir

A limestone carving depicting the Maya queen known as Lady K’abel. (Image credit: Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1967.29)

Future 6G networks promise blistering speeds , but there’s a catch. The wireless channels they’ll rely on can’t pass through walls. But now, engineers have

A fruit fly study shows motor neurons do more than relay commands: They send signals back to the brain and organize movement sequences.

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a portrait while holding a

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks. In July, OpenAI revealed that one of its experimental AI

Quick facts What it is: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud Where it is: 430 light-years away, in the constellation Corona Australis When it was shared:

Every person you know has a name, and you’ve likely given one to your pets, too. But are names a uniquely human feature, or do

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into

Archaeologists in Russia have unearthed a rare wooden tomb containing the remains of an elite man who was buried with a horse and a dog.

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute reviews new research in static electricity and other science revelations in our September magazine issue.

In the early hours of July 16, 1945, in a remote part of the New Mexico desert, a group of scientists, engineers and military personnel

We all know that a dropped or shaken soda can comes with the risk of a fizzy eruption. People use different techniques to prevent these