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Everything is Science: Opposites Attract is a week of paired presentations, lectures and demonstrations from UK faculty and other guest speakers that take a ...
The 2020 Freightliner Cascadia that will reach dealers this fall will offer new safety features, fuel efficiency and other technology compared with the previous ...
This story originally appeared on EdSource.orgNext month California students will start to be tested on the state's new science standards for the first time, but ...
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 21, 2019--Omnitracs, LLC, a global pioneer of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies, today ...
Ctrl + N. A woman checks the Facebook Inc. site on her smartphone whilst standing against an illuminated wall bearing the Facebook Inc. logo in this arranged ...
In the second-largest lake in Africa, fish evolution is taking place at an explosive rate. Why? Scientists are diving into the question.
Liquid Technology, an industry leading IT asset disposition *service* provider, announces their instrumental role in coordinating and executing Theranos.
The sequel to Rick Miller's Segal Centre one-man show Boom zeros in on Generation X, brings us up to 1995, and promises “I'll be back.”
Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck told me that when he bought the NBA team in 2002 he thought he was purchasing a basketball team but in reality he was ...
Three AI startups that deliver innovative and intelligent solutions to market, were selected from a pool of 1000+ startups post-rigorous evaluation on pitch day.
Publisher of the Haynes workshop manuals that fuelled a boom in DIY car repairs.
A little stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) nicknamed "Mary" appears to have leapt across a major reproductive divide on the evolutionary tree of life.
Calls to U.S. poison centers regarding the herbal supplement kratom have increased dramatically in recent years.
One in five parents of children under the age of 12 say vaccinations should be a parent's choice, and not mandatory.
Update: an earlier version of this story positioned the €160 million fund as newly announced, when in actual fact it was disclosed in late 2017 and consists of a ...
Almost half of women and a quarter of men leave full-time science-based careers after becoming a parent. That is according to a study that followed the careers ...
Vasudevan was with Paytm Mall as the Vice President - Engineering before joining Paytm Money.
As anyone who's ever pulled an all-nighter can attest, sleep feels pretty essential to life. While the field of sleep science has long thought that animals and ...
Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.
And then there were three. Amazon has joined Microsoft and Google in supporting regulation of facial recognition technology, and it is easy to guess why: ...
Nitin Rakesh, CEO of Mphasis, spoke to CNBC-TV18 about the software industry guidance and shared his outlook on the sector. "If you look at the three quarter ...
Wow, technology. Papal apps. Speculative e-currency that sucks up as much energy as a small country. Shopping carts that spy on you. And now, a pair of $350, ...
Report says few headlines sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti.
Today's technology platforms are not just new versions of legacy systems. They allow you to design a completely new digital enterprise — as long as you follow ...
Ross and John were taken by a new piece of technology that will track conversation in the hope of improving quality of life for elderly Australians at risk of ...
PIERRE — A bill that would let South Dakota teachers decide how much skepticism to inject into lessons on scientific topics such as climate change and the Big ...
How does one mix up the perfect cheese fondue? After studying how the ingredients interact with one another, scientists have found the dish is really a complex ...
On Wednesday, House Education Committee members talked about a new way to better prepare students for a 21st century economy.
Toronto needs rules and regulations to govern the collection and managing of data from smart cities including the one Sidewalk Labs has in mind, says a city ...
Two bills instruct the state to ignore the greenhouse effect and federal government.
WATCH ABOVE: Tech experts say advancements in camera technology are making it easier for peeping Toms to record victims. Kamil Karamali reports.
Last June, astronomers noticed the appearance of a mysterious bright object in the constellation of Hercules. It remained visible for a little over two weeks, ...
I have written many times about the unwarranted “adjustments” to measured past temperatures by government agencies, which serve to inflate the modest ...
When a citizen's committee in Redondo Beach charged with updating the city's general plan floated an idea to turn one neighborhood into a creative technology ...
2019 marks 150 years since the creation of the periodic table of elements, which epitomizes our modern understanding of chemistry and of the physical world, ...
The impending bifurcation of the world internet economy will disrupt many industries, companies and national economies.
The founder and host of "DC Science Comedy" includes a hiking expedition with Serena Williams and a stand-up show with John Mulaney on her ideal day in ...
Smartphone-tablet hybrid has standard 4.6in phone on the outside and a 7.3in screen that unfolds on the inside. Samuel Gibbs. Wed 20 Feb 2019 15.35 EST ...
BuzzFeed News has learned that the US House Oversight and Reform Committee is considering holding a hearing on facial recognition, which has been widely ...
When our columnist asked readers whether this had happened to them, the stories came pouring in.
Astronomers confirm orbit of tiny moon Hippocamp via multiple images from Hubble.
The project is a collaboration between the Alabama Department of Labor, U.S. Steel, the Cities of Birmingham and Leeds, Jefferson County and the Southern ...
A sneaky piece of advertising software may be responsible for driving up millions of Android users' mobile data usage and wasting their device's battery life, ...
Scientists have proposed more than a dozen ideas to explain why zebras evolved stripes. Some say the bold patterns confuse their predators, or that they keep ...
Fluidity Factora has released a real estate token called FACTOR-805, which will allow investors the option to both make payments and receive interest in Dai, ...
MLB is implementing new rules ahead of the 2019 season in an attempt to curtail high-tech sign-stealing, according to multiple reports.
Steve Inskeep talks to ex-Energy Secretary Bill Richardson about a House Democrats' report detailing how Trump administration officials apparently sought to ...
Elon Musk says an expanded version of "Autopilot" is nearly complete.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, following a report about U.S. intent to ...
Some kids spend their time on social media. Other kids spend their time playing video games. When it comes to 14-year-Jackson Oswalt, his time is spent in a ...
JAXA is preparing to sample an asteroid called Ryugu with the agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft — so the team practiced on Earth first.
Wallace Broecker, the US climate scientist who helped popularise the term "global warming" has died in New York at the age of 87. Prof Broecker was among ...
Research puts a number on the proportion of people leaving full-time careers in science after the birth of their first child.
The Trump administration sought to rush the transfer of American nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia in potential violation of the law, a new report from the ...
If you picture early humans dining, you likely imagine them sitting down to a barbecue of mammoth, aurochs, and giant elk meat. But in the rainforests of Sri ...
The House Oversight Committee has launched a formal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn for planning to give nuclear technology ...
News. MIT Technology Review magazine has published an article today, Feb. 19, arguing that security-touted blockchain tech is still vulnerable to hacks.
Excavations at two quarries in Wales, known to be the source of the Stonehenge 'bluestones', provide new evidence of megalith quarrying 5000 years ago.
Omnicom Media Group's data-driven media agency Hearts & Science has appointed Erin Matts to U.S. CEO, effective immediately. The appointment comes after ...
A new joint unit, NHSX, will be created to bring the benefits of modern technology to every patient and clinician. It will combine the best talent from government, ...
More and more security holes are appearing in cryptocurrency and smart contract platforms, and some are fundamental to the way they were built.
A group of computer scientists once backed by Elon Musk has caused some alarm by developing an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) they say is too ...
The US cannot crush Huawei, the company's founder has insisted, as he hit back against criminal indictments levelled at the firm and allegations that it poses a ...
A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.
Physicists burned out 12 microwaves putting this trick to the test.
Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI released a new language model capable of generating convincing passages of prose.
Purdue University researchers have developed a machine learning software tool that increases the accuracy of additive manufacturing. The tool will also make ...
Scientists have developed dozens of new graphene-based prototypes. These technologies aim to turn mobile phones into life saving devices.
Over the years that I've written pieces here at Scientific American I've only very occasionally talked about the process of writing about science, since there have ...
Social science has an image problem—too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30000 studies to try to identify red flags.
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn't make on our own.
Two books by legal scholars argue that the revolutionary promise of the new database tool has been exaggerated.
How Ahmed El Ghandour's love of science led to an online show watched by millions of Egyptians.
The harvesting of wild animals and plants for international trade affects thousands of species, and compounds ongoing extinction threats such as habitat loss ...
*Update, 13 February, 2:10 p.m.: After more than a thousand attempts to revive the Opportunity rover, including a final unanswered command last night, NASA ...
The rapid rise of pseudoscience in the Modi era triggers ridicule and concern.
French writers such as Voltaire and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle helped shape the Enlightenment with stories of science.
Black women's contributions to society have often been overlooked, yet these pioneers in science, technology and medicine have changed history.
Textiles trap infrared radiation, which helps keep us warm in cold weather. Of course, in hot weather, this is less desirable. Zhang et al. constructed an ...
Parents rush to the hospital every day after their kids swallow toys. To calm their fears, six brave doctors swallowed Legos for science.
If we look at technology over very long timescales, our definition of what it is transforms, and as Tom Chatfield argues, it also displays a form of evolution ...
A 240-million-year-old turtle died with a type of bone cancer that still haunts the living, National Geographic reports. The ancient turtle's fossilized hind leg ...
Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here's why.
A major perk of being the majority party in the U.S. Congress is getting to fill the leadership slots on every committee. For several new Democratic legislators, ...
Even the humble fruit fly needs sleep. Toda et al. screened ∼12,000 fruit fly lines and identified a single sleep-promoting molecule encoded by a gene they ...
In the United States alone, we spend more than $2.5 billion a year trying to rid our homes of cockroaches and other pests—but a new study says some of us may ...
When a star passes close to a massive black hole (MBH), it is ripped apart by the strong tidal forces. As the resulting debris falls toward the MBH, it heats up, ...
A Star Trek–like replicator has arrived, but don't expect it to synthesize a cup of Earl Grey tea (hot) on the spot. Researchers have come up with a new 3D ...
The technology that allows submariners to breathe underwater could someday allow the rest of us to breathe cooler air. Researchers have found a way to suck ...
A new 3D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes. The printer can create objects that are smoother, ...
The northern lights (above) and their lesser-known sibling the southern lights, aurora borealis and aurora australis, respectively, undulate across the skies in ...
The Kīlauea Volcano on the island of Hawai'i erupted for 3 months in 2018. Neal et al. present a summary of the eruption sequence along with a variety of ...
FOR SOMETHING weighing only a few kilograms and costing less than $2000, even for a sophisticated model, a small consumer drone can cause an awful lot ...
Poor oral health is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. What's not clear is whether gum disease causes the disorder or is merely a result—many patients with ...
New research shows that the degree to which aerosols cool the earth has been grossly underestimated, necessitating a recalculation of climate change models ...
Archaeologist Chris Hunt describes rare find at Shanidar Cave.