Astronomers have long suspected a city-sized neutron star hides within the dusty shroud of SN 1987A. And now, they're closer than ever to proving their case.
The world was waiting for Voyager's encounter with Saturn's when Discover's debut issue hit newsstands in 1980. Since then, the Voyager spacecraft have boldly gone where no probes have gone before.
Convalescent plasma therapy, an old-school weapon against deadly illnesses, gives coronavirus patients a dose of virus-fighting antibodies. Here's what else you should know about "survivors' blood."
The mission will not only search for evidence of ancient martian life, but also test a method for plucking usable oxygen straight from Mars' thin air. Oh, it also has a helicopter.
A new summer series called Summer Reading Meets Citizen Science is designed to keep students and adults engaged with reading and research to prevent "summer slide" learning loss.
Increasing automation will likely hit people with limited skill sets the hardest. "Robot-proof" jobs will likely require greater education, interpersonal skills and adaptability.
The fastest way to make a new island is volcanism. The island of Nishino-shima in Japan has doubled in a little over 7 years, all thanks to lava flows.
Deep learning eats so much power that even small advances will be unfeasible give the massive environmental damage they will wreak, say computer scientists.
Your city may hold a buffet of edible vegetation — with wild mushrooms, berries, nuts and more. Here are a few tips to get you started on your hunt for plants you can eat.
Antidepressants have many unknowns — from why different medications work for different people, why they take so long to work, and why they affect depression symptoms in the first place.
The 2019 tragedy at New Zealand White Island might have been prevented if there was more warning. Could machine learning allow for better, true prediction of volcanic eruptions?
Many people are helping save pollinators these days, from planting bee gardens to building homes for native bees. These citizen science pollinator projects let you take your efforts to the next level.
A new way to think about light pollution in Europe and the U.S. should help policy makers take its measure. But if they can't solve it, what hope for more complex problems like global heating?
Since confirming the existence of ripples in the fabric of space-time some five years ago, the LIGO/Virgo collaboration has advanced gravitational-wave research by leaps and bounds.
While machine learning might hold promise as a powerful medical tool, statisticians warn that current models are severely flawed. If adopted too soon, they could do more harm than good.
One of the universe's strangest stars is thought to form when a neutron star gets sucked into a red supergiant. But despite 45 years of searching, astronomers still aren't sure they've ever found one.
NASA is about to fly a rotorcraft on another planet for the first time. And for the engineers who built the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, it's a Wright brothers moment.
It's hard to reduce carbon emissions without knowing how well your efforts are working. Now a new initiative reveals global emissions in near-real time.
Saturn's moon Enceladus has a pole covered in stripes. Why are they only found in the South Pole and what does that mean for the potential liquid water ocean under its icy crust?
Animals can give people diseases like rabies, plague, Lyme Disease and COVID-19. Researchers are working on vaccinating wildlife so they don't have to vaccinate us.
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