You can’t lift them, but you can weigh them. From ancient methods to modern displacement science, this is how we measure ...

Artist Tavares Strachan's first L.A. show blends his research into climatology, ocean science, aeronautics, chemistry, ...

Water is everywhere in life, covering most of our planet, making up the majority of our bodies, and forming the stage on ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

The researchers captured "microlightning" as they bubbled methane and air through water. Screenshot via Xia, Yu et al., PNAS, 2025 For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

At 77, the Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan shows no signs of slowing down. His new novel, What We Can Know, is set in Great Britain in the 22nd century – a country now partly ...

What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a new study that aims to describe a hybrid bird never encountered before in the wild. The ...

What if a huge chunk of scholarly research is a pointless exercise pursued by hobbyists who like the perks? That’s decidedly not the argument made by Harvard Business School’s Max Bazerman in Inside ...

UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid says computer science students are struggling to find jobs. Farid said Berkeley grads used to have "the run of the place. That is not happening today." The advice ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...