Police arrest Hawaiian protesters trying to block telescope

Police arrested elderly protesters, some using wheelchairs and canes, as they blocked a road Wednesday to…

Win or lose: Rigged card game sheds light on inequality, fairness

Researchers at Cornell University are using a rigged card game to shed light on perceptions of…

A graphene superconductor that plays more than one tune

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a…

Cell Science

Some aspects of life function differently in space, and biologists can learn a lot about how…

Mars 2020 Rover: T-Minus One Year and Counting

The launch period for NASA’s next rover, Mars 2020, opens exactly one year from…

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Apollo Connection

How work by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory helped pave the way for the Apollo…

Study identifies how to verify whether MPAs are effective

Marine protected areas, or MPAS, are an increasingly common way of protecting marine ecosystems by prohibiting…

Correcting historic sea surface temperature measurements

Something odd happened in the oceans in the early 20th century. The North Atlantic and Northeast…

'Artificial snow' could save stricken Antarctic ice sheet – study

Governments could stop the West Antarctic ice sheet from sliding into the ocean and submerging coastal…

Plant viruses may be reshaping our world

The community of viruses is staggeringly vast. Occupying every conceivable biological niche, from searing undersea vents…