Science

In the 1980s, a shell collection that included specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage was accidentally thrown into a skip and believed lost forever. But much to the joy of scientists, last week it was […]

You never can tell when planetary scientists are going to discover a new giant volcano on Mars, but when it happens, I step out to the porch and raise my Lunar and Planetary Society Core-Mantle […]

In patent law, invention is a two-step process: the inventor first develops a complete mental picture of the invention, then physically makes the invention or describes it in sufficient detail for an artisan to make […]

When media coverage doesn’t include the numerical magnitude of a scientific study’s effect, the risk of readers developing biases increases significantly, according to a new University of Michigan study.This article is brought to you by […]

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Rodents eating herbal remedies. I watched a truck mistaken for an alien message. All those moments will be lost in time, like the Upper West Side under land […]

“Missing Girls in Historical Europe” is a major research project at NTNU in which researchers have looked into numbers of girls and boys in European countries over a 250-year period. They found that the number […]

Sixty-eight Nobel science laureates urged Argentina’s self-professed “anarcho-capitalist” President Javier Milei Wednesday to restore budgets for science and technology that have been cut under his drive to slash public spending.This article is brought to you […]

It’s been a long, eight-day leap week, and this weekend, I’m spending my free time working on the manuscript for my style guide for science writers, “How to Effectively Split an Infinitive.”This article is brought […]

Two years of war in Ukraine have caused widespread devastation to the country’s citizenry, infrastructure and environment, and new research utilizing publicly accessible satellite imagery lays bare the scope of destruction.This article is brought to […]

From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting developments […]