Stephen Wolfram’s Idea Makers profiles the lives and professional contributions of prominent people in science and technology, including Ada Lovelace, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Steve Jobs.
Scientists manipulate chlorine atoms to store data on a supersmall device.
A newly discovered oil-producing organ inside the swordfish’s head gives the animal slick skin to swim faster.
Scientists are getting close to turning hydrogen into a metal — both in liquid form and maybe even solid form. The rewards, if they pull it off, are worth the effort.
Designed with better, more energy-efficient materials, next-generation desalination plants may offer a way to meet the world’s growing need for freshwater.
Mice’s response to diet varies with their genes.
Kepler space telescope adds another 104 planets to its growing census of worlds in our galaxy.
Many genes are interchangeable between yeast, bacteria, plants and humans.
Brains regions that are synchronized when awake stop communicating as monkeys drift off.
By combining different types of data, researchers have drawn a new detailed map of the human brain.
Electrons usually repel each other, but new research shows pairs of electrons can be attracted due to their repulsion from other electrons.
A new study found that antibiotics hit Alzheimer’s plaques in the brains of mice.
Bird species takes hunter-gatherers to honeybees’ nests when called on.
Primates and microbes have been splitting in sync for at least 10 million years.
Yeasts newly discovered in common lichens challenge more than a century of thinking about what defines the lichen symbiosis.
Land bridges may have once allowed dinosaurs and other animals to travel between North America and Europe around 150 million years ago, a researcher proposes.
High temperatures over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot suggest that storms pump heat into the atmosphere and warm the entire planet.
Cloning doesn’t cause premature aging in sheep.
New study homes in on a primary source of toxic vaping compounds: the thermal breakdown of solvents used to dissolve flavorings in e-liquids. And older, dirtier e-cigs generate more of these toxicants, study shows.
A bacterium isolated from the nose produces a new antibiotic active against resistant pathogens.
See Leopold and Rudolf Blaschkas’ delicate glass jellyfish, anemones, sea worms and other marine invertebrates at the Corning Museum of Glass.
Blood and bones turn naturally green in island lizards. Their evolutionary history still needs explaining.
Magnetic fields within the sun rise up no faster than about 500 kilometers per hour, suggesting that the movement of gas is responsible for bringing these fields to the sun’s surface.
With one year to go, researchers are making plans for studying both the sun and Earth during the August 2017 total solar eclipse.
Florida adds 10 new cases of locally acquired Zika infection, prompting the CDC to issue travel warning for pregnant women. Mosquitoes in Miami may be resistant to insecticides.
Male honeybees produce less living sperm if raised on pollen tainted with neonicotinoids, tests show.
A new dinosaur species discovered in Patagonia has the runty forearms of a Tyrannosaurus rex, but is not closely related to the gigantic predator.
Researchers looked to traditional Chinese medicine for cancer treatment clues 50 years ago. Today, synthetic versions treat a variety of cancers.
