Low cost science tools are becoming more accessible, but can a dirt cheap spectrometer actually deliver useful results This ...

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 ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

ChatGPT has introduced interactive visual explanations to help users understand maths and science concepts more easily. The feature allows learners to manipulate variables, formulas and graphs in real ...

Following the early departure of Crew-11 in mid-January due to a medical concern, the International Space Station began February with a crew of just three. Two cosmonauts, Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that AI writing assistants are subtly shifting how humans think, and we are powerless to resist it—even when we're warned.

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 ...

With countless material candidates and limited lab time, a digital materials ecosystem combines AI and multiple tools into ...