Study shows cannabis legalization cuts arrests overall but racial disparities in enforcement persist, requiring additional reforms.
Physicists measured 'negative time' in quantum experiments, where particles exit a state before entering it. This Q&A explains the finding, its implications, and why it's not time travel.
A Texas A&M study reveals how food waste changes with income, challenging conventional wisdom and offering new measurement approaches.
AI predicts crop pest outbreaks earlier and more accurately than traditional methods, reducing pesticide use and saving yields. Texas A&M leads the research, targeting fall armyworm and adaptable to other pests.
UC Riverside researchers found that fruit flies exposed to 10g hypergravity survive, mate, reproduce, and recover, showing remarkable resilience and adaptive phenotypic plasticity.
Discover the Eta Aquariid meteor shower: its Halley's Comet origins, peak in early May, why it's elusive in the Northern Hemisphere, and tips for best viewing.
DESI-HVS1 is an old, metal-poor hypervelocity star ejected from the Milky Way's center, discovered using DESI and Gaia data.
Guide for parents on discussing terrorism and violence with children: 6 Q&A covering awareness, conversation starters, age-appropriate explanations, addressing fears, limiting news exposure, and ongoing reassurance.
Wildfires strip vegetation, increasing flood risks downstream. Climate change worsens both. Understanding this is key for disaster planning.
The White House ousted 22 National Science Board members in 2026, sparking debate on political influence in science. This Q&A explores implications, history, and potential reforms.
A long-term study reveals that COVID lockdowns created more family time but had unexpected lasting effects on fatherhood, diverging from ideal shared parenting.
Learn why you shouldn't trust a single study, how science builds incrementally, and practical tips to evaluate nutrition research, using eggs as an example.
Penn Engineers use AI to solve inverse PDEs, a tough math class. New method (I-PINNs) handles noise, sparse data, and speeds up reconstruction for medical, geophysical, and climate applications.
Sentinel-1D is fully operational after commissioning, completing the four-satellite constellation, marking a decade-long radar mission milestone for Europe's Copernicus program.
Explosive evaporation of charged droplets on frictionless surfaces reveals spontaneous microdroplet jets. This phenomenon promises breakthroughs in nanoscale 3D printing and electrospray ionization for chemical analysis.
Universities can inspire social entrepreneurship through curricula, mentorship, and ecosystems. New research highlights their crucial role in shaping grad career paths.
A study shows children living near gas stations face higher cancer risks, with environmental factors like benzene exposure responsible for most cases—not genetics alone.
Explores how genetic information maintains cellular order against chaos, based on a new Moffitt Cancer Center model with implications for cancer and life understanding.
Discover the revolutionary lithium-plasma engine that passed key Mars propulsion tests, offering faster, smoother travel to the Red Planet at 400,000 km/h.
Amazon ECS now allows platform engineers to independently manage daemons on managed instances, decoupling operational tooling from application deployments for improved reliability and efficiency.