News

  1. Neuroscience

    This brain region may be why some robots send chills down your spine

    Scientists may have traced the source of the “uncanny valley” sensation in the brain.

    By Maria Temming
  2. Health & Medicine

    California’s new vaccine rules kept more kindergartners up-to-date

    Three statewide interventions improved the rates of kindergartners behind on required vaccinations in California, researchers report.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  3. Climate

    CO2 emissions are on track to take us beyond 1.5 degrees of global warming

    Current and planned infrastructure will exceed the level of emissions that would keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new analysis finds.

    By Carolyn Wilke
  4. Astronomy

    How the 2019 eclipse will differ from 2017’s — and what that means for science

    This year’s total solar eclipse is visible late in the day from a relatively small slice of South America.