Category: Science

NPR’s science podcast Short Wave looks at the secrets behind scorpions’ weapons, using electricity to measure the quality of a cup of coffee, and what

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His “whole genome shotgun method” helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper. (Image credit: K.C. Alfred/The

Chamber pots from the frontier of the Roman Empire have provided the world’s earliest evidence of humans infected with the Cryptosporidium parasite.

Can you identify these millennia- to centuries-old weapons from the smallest clues? Test your eye for history by matching carved details and close-up images to

A compression algorithm like TurboQuant turns the data in the AI’s working memory into a smaller, more efficient form.

AI may help doctors avoid missed diagnoses, but it still needs real-world testing and human oversight before it can guide patient care.

In cows’ guts, ciliates contain a tiny organelle called a hydrogenobody that may drive production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

A Viking Age hoard of nearly 3,000 coins is the largest hoard of its kind ever found in Norway.

To save a baby with a rare lung disorder, doctors performed a surgery while he remained half-in and half-out of the womb.

This portable smart telescope makes capturing deep-sky images from a backyard easy, but it’s the telelscope’s advanced features that truly impress.

Scientists have pinpointed a mechanism that may explain heart cancer’s rarity and point to new cancer treatments.

The D1 humanoid robot, built by a smartphone manufacturer, has beaten the human-held world record by around seven minutes.

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don’t

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump