COVID-19 opens a partisan gap on voting by mail

Before the pandemic, there wasn’t any difference in the rates at which Democratic and Republican voters…

Researchers find news coverage in Chicago disproportionately devalues Black and Hispanic lives

The recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery added new momentum to the…

Chromium steel was first made in ancient Persia

Chromium steel—similar to what we know today as tool steel—was first made in Persia, nearly a…

Jaws of death: Paleontologist renames giant, prehistoric marine lizard

Some 92 to 66 million years ago, as the age of dinosaurs waned, giant marine lizards…

China sets 2060 goal to go carbon neutral

Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed Tuesday that the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluter will peak emissions…

Study shows keeping gratitude journal reduces gossip, incivility in workplace

Researchers suggest employees should take a cue from Jimmy Fallon’s Thank You Notes segment on The…

Between relativistic and classical wave regimes, newly discovered memory effect alters the Doppler wave signature

Wave scattering appears practically everywhere in everyday life—from conversations across rooms, to ocean waves breaking on…

Squeezed light makes Virgo's mirrors jitter

Quantum mechanics does not only describe how the world works on its smallest scales, but also…

Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian gods

Millions of ibis and birds of prey mummies, sacrificed to the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra or…

New 3-D printing method could jump-start creation of tiny medical devices for the body

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of…