Study highlights importance of female roles in matrilineal families

What do termites, elephants, whales, hyenas, and some human societies have in common? The core of…

The Making Of Apollo's Command Module: 2 Engineers Recall Tragedy And Triumph

It was the only part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that came back from the moon.…

Mystery of universe’s expansion deepens with new cosmic calculation

Cosmologists have two clashing measurements of the universe’s expansion, and a new method of measuring surprisingly…

Artificial intelligence to monitor volcanoes

More than half of the world’s active volcanoes are not monitored instrumentally. Hence, even very serious…

New Hubble Constant Measurement Adds to Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate

Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, using an entirely…

Apollo 11 launch pad

Celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11 blasted off carrying the first humans that would walk on…

A new way to stop insect pests in their tracks

Spotted lanternfly, emerald ash borer, hemlock woolly adelgid, Asian longhorned beetle. These are but a few…

Scientists find new way to use silicon nanoparticles in fight against cancer

Russian scientists from Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Nuclear University…

Climate change poses greater risk to global development than climate action does

Climate action without careful planning and reform can be costly—but a new study shows that the…

Artificial intelligence designs metamaterials used in the invisibility cloak

Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring materials, and they…