Neanderthals likely used the sticky substance to build and repair tools, but it also may have had another important use. With its antibiotic properties, birch tar could also treat wounds. The findings ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Breakthrough ideas often appear when you least expect them—but studies show there’s more than one way to trigger a “eureka” moment.

This experiment rebuilds the simple measuring tools that made one of history’s most precise construction feats possible. What ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

Plowing, or tilling, is an age-old agricultural practice that readies the soil for planting by turning over the top layer to expose fresh earth. The method—intended to improve water and nutrient ...

Researchers at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory harnessed bottom-up Soldier innovation to develop an experimental 3D-printed small unmanned ...

Again and again, Washington State University professor Mesut Cicek and his colleagues fed hypotheses from scientific papers into ChatGPT and asked it to determine whether the statements had been ...

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Much software may get commoditized away over the next 24 months, pushing value toward hardware and startups operating in the physical world.

Harvard postdoctoral researcher Shambhu Yadav discusses using chemogenetics to study oxidative stress, neurovascular signaling, and the biological mechanisms of resilience.

The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss.